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RE: [Xen-users] disk backend performance


  • To: "'Joseph L. Casale'" <JCasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Xen Users'" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:45:27 -0500
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My system disk is a raid 5 array, 800 GB, so it has plenty of throughput.
But you say that any technique even NFS or even SAMBA, versos creating a
file and sharing it via AOE will be comparable?
Which technique would you pick? I have a back-to-back 1 GB Ethernet cable
between the two servers.
Federico

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 11:41 AM
To: 'Xen Users'
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] disk backend performance

>I really need to share a directory but don't want to use NFS, but a lower
>level, faster protocol over Ethernet that does not have the overhead of
>TCP-IP. My main partition is formatted as the root "/" and then I guess I
>cannot share a directory over AOE? An alternative would be to repartition
my
>drive and break it into two separate partitions, and publish one via AOE,
>but how can I do that without reinstalling the OS?

Federico,
If your interests performance, you're wasting your time nit picking the
difference's
in how you export storage if you're doing it all off the system disc whether
it's a raw
partition exported or a directory or a file on your filesystem exported as a
raw device...

If you have only one disc at your disposal, you're not going to squeeze that
last little bit
out



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