Re: [Xen-users] Best practice for file based images

[Kate Dawson <k4t@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

just bumping this ? 

is anyone using disk images over NFS ?  If so is it better to use 
file:// or tap2:tapdisk:aio://  or something else ? 

Thanks in advance.

Kate Dawson

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:31:41PM +0000, Kate Dawson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently running two Debian Stretch hosts 
> 
> using xen 4.8 
> 
> mounting a FreeBSD file server ZFS file system over NFS. 
> 
> The virtual machine images are file based images on the NFS mounts.
> 
> What would best practice for configuring the vm disks in xen ?
> 
> use of 
> 
> file: or tap2:tapdisk:aio:
> 
> The NFS is async ( and also the ZFS dataset is async ).
> 
> I'm looking to improve the disk IO throughput. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Kate Dawson
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