On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:57:17AM -0500, Javier Guerra wrote: >> I thought about using 1 lvm volume, but splitting that into slices >> somehow, which can then be used as kvm disks - maybe by implementing >> a very simple filesystem (block mapper). The problem with this >> approach is that adding/deleting a new disk would mean to grow/shrink >> an lvm partition, which is slow. > you could run LVM in the VM. be careful about block scanning tools on > Dom0, could mistake the LVM structure inside a LV for the 'outer' one. > (reiserfsck has this problem with image files)
Yes, I noticed that this is not common knowledge. Besides, it's something that can't hurt being repeated every so often: * Don't ever, ever store images of reiser file systems on reiserfs!! * Theodore T'so explained it rather well: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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