[fedora-virt] porting a disk from lvm to file

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Sun Aug 22 16:28:50 UTC 2010


  On 08/01/2010 11:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:39:30PM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
>> You might want to add -c to the ssh cmd to compress the data if the
>> connection between the servers is<  100 MBit/s.
> When writing the original virt-p2v we found the -C option actually
> makes things a lot slower, assuming the common case where you have a
> gigabit network between the servers.  It's quicker just to copy
> without the overhead of compression.

Interesting, I'd have guessed that encryption will dominate the cpu 
cost, and that compression would be a win since there's less to encrypt 
and transmit.

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