On Dec 4, 2007 10:16 AM, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Worley wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2007 6:28 AM, Jc Polanycia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > >> running > >> your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? > >> We use VMWare a bit over here and found that using image files gives us > >> more flexibility in with our VMs(portable, easily duplicatable). > >> Also, we use LVM on top of md RAID1 volumes(using libata) here and > >> have > >> found them to be quite stable and have good performance. Plus you then > >> also get the flexibility to resize partitions as needed (with some some > >> restrictions, of course). > > > > Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > > perform best), > > But huge filesystem perform poorly.
Qualify that with "on small files". Chris > > > but, you're setting yourself up for disaster using LVM > > (any corruption to the LVM layer is not recoverable... you'll loose > > everything... been there done that), and the performance is poor, and > > MD RAID5/6 devices can be grown (add more disks). > > This is why I do NOT used LVM for home use. > Basically, I'm not diligent enough in my backups to run the > additional risk of LVM corruption. > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
