Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Lezcano
On 06/10/2010 10:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: > BTW, a second option is lessfs. > > http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 > > John Thanks for the pointer. -- Daniel -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for th

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, John Drescher wrote: > >> BTW, a second option is lessfs. >> >> http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 > > What about the KSM kernel option? It's aimed at KVM I think and in the > kernel from 2.6.32. i'm not real

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 06/10/2010 09:31 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 06/10/2010 11:25 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> On 06/09/2010 11:47 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>> On 06/09/2010 10:46 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 06/09/2010 09:08 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 06/09/2010 08:45 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> Is

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 06/10/2010 09:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: > BTW, a second option is lessfs. > > http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 Interesting project, but again, in this context, similar problem to btrfs (or any other FS) - without VServer type COW hard-links, no RAM savings to go with the space sa

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Lezcano
On 06/10/2010 11:25 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 06/09/2010 11:47 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > >> On 06/09/2010 10:46 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> >>> On 06/09/2010 09:08 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>> On 06/09/2010 08:45 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > Is there a fe

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread John Drescher
BTW, a second option is lessfs. http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 John -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. S

Re: [Lxc-users] Benchmarking with LXC

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Thornton
>>Gordon wrote: >>Are you sure it's wise to even consider LXC here? >>And can one PC really keep up with 20Gb/sec of Ethernet traffic? i.e. How >>do you know the bottleneck here won't be the PC rather than the firewall >>appliance... I'd seriously consider using 2 PCs - firstly back to back, >>th

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, John Drescher wrote: > BTW, a second option is lessfs. > > http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 What about the KSM kernel option? It's aimed at KVM I think and in the kernel from 2.6.32. See: http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/330589/ No

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 06/10/2010 09:54 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, John Drescher wrote: > >> BTW, a second option is lessfs. >> >> http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?page_id=50 > > What about the KSM kernel option? It's aimed at KVM I think and in the > kernel from 2.6.32. See: > >http://lwn.

Re: [Lxc-users] Benchmarking with LXC

2010-06-10 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Richard Thornton wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to use netperf to benchmark a firewall appliance but I only want to > use a single physical 10GbE adapter. > > So I have my PC and the firewall. > > I wasy thinking two LXC containers, netperf-client and netperf-server, > basically I wa

[Lxc-users] Benchmarking with LXC

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Thornton
Hi, I wish to use netperf to benchmark a firewall appliance but I only want to use a single physical 10GbE adapter. So I have my PC and the firewall. I wasy thinking two LXC containers, netperf-client and netperf-server, basically I want to force the traffic through the firewall. The firewall w

Re: [Lxc-users] Copy-on-write hard-link / hashify feature

2010-06-10 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 06/09/2010 11:47 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 06/09/2010 10:46 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> On 06/09/2010 09:08 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>> On 06/09/2010 08:45 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Is there a feature that allows unifying identical files between guests via hard-links to save both s