On 10/27/06, Jeffrey Tadlock linux@elfshadow.net wrote:
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Friday 27 October 2006 09:02, Mike McGrath wrote:
I'm kind of in the boat that we should just use large files and skip the partition all together, that way its an scp or a cp away from having another guest.
That works also. one issue we would face is storing the xen guest images. that will get big fast. But i do really like the idea. we could do something to help us manage bottlenecks also. bring up an app server image when needed and some quick configuration we have a new app server. or proxy or any of our other services.
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, though I'd like to see some numbers as to what difference we're talking about. The flexability of using a file is very appealing. Especially since our boxes aren't really that overloaded. (well except fpserv ;-)
-Mike