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Re: [Xen-users] disk access besk practice


  • To: "John Madden" <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:07:20 -0500
  • Cc: Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM, John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> While performance seems fine both interactively and using benchmarks,
>> is there a practical limit to the image size before I should start
>> breaking it up?
>
> I do *everything* through physical allocations -- phy: -- and I'm quite happy
> with it.  tap:aio seems like unnecessary overhead.
>
> John
>

LVM?
Raid?
Normal Partitions?

There are some general rules on what is faster, but has there been any
comprehensive studies on the different disks types?

Thanks,
Todd


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Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

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