Hi, I wasn't sure if this question should be directed to a Crossbow mailing list or Xen or NFS, as it is about all those technologies.
My team and I are beginning to build a system for using Xen as a container to deploy a distributed system. We're investigating different possibilities for how to detach the data on stateful hosts, to be reused by new hosts. This is to allow the upgrading of that host while keeping the data. One possible solution we were considering is using an NFS share from the dom0 mounted into local domU's. We like this approach for a couple reasons but we're concerned about the performance impact. From our understanding, even though the filesystems will be on the local machine, using NFS will introduce the networking stack into all disk I/O and slow things down. Can using Crossbow remove the performance impact of mounting NFS from dom0 to local domU? Thank you in advance for any help or advice. -Dan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
