Re: [Xen-users] Dom0 on USB Stick

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Tripathy wrote:

> I'm currently mulling over the idea of running our Dom0 on a USB 
> flash disk. Currently, we have the Dom0 and DomU running of the same 
> disk array. I'd like to know the list's opinion on doing this. It 
> seems like a very nice idea to split the single critical Dom0 and 
> the tens of DomUs.
> I'd like to stop the DomUs from affecting the disk IOPS available 
> for the Dom0 as I'm sure you'll appreciate the critical nature of 
> the it.
I'm not sure what you'd gain. Once the system is running, Dom0 
shouldn't be doing much (if any) disk I/O - and if it is, then doing 
it to a USB memory stick is likely to be more of a bottleneck to the 
system as a whole than a few deeks on the hard disk(s).
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