Builders

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/27/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Friday 27 October 2006 15:07, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:
> > One of the downsides of file based images is I/O performance, right?
> > Won't that have an adverse effect on the builders versus LVM?
>
> Yes.  I just talked w/ our Xen folks and they recommend using LVM, and doing
> lvm snapshots, back up the snapshot to an image file, so that in an emergency
> a guest could be brought up on another machine using the image file.
>


Whats the actual performance hit though?  I want numbers :D

            -Mike