Did you consider to make the file pool of the KVM a native ZFS file pool? CIFS or other
Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Jan 2017, at 08:31, Matthias Goetzke <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a machine which temporarily got 98% full and the boot time of a KVM > windows server has gotten quite extreme (minutes on the black part of the > boot alone). > Apart from over-allocating, we guess it might have to do with fragmentation > of the underlying C drive (just a hunch due to the number of writes on C and > the fact that overall fragmentation was temporarily >78%) since another win > machine still booted up quite quickly. > > If a kvm disk were just a file then I could just make a copy of the C drive > (I have enough space now) into a new file which should (in theory) just > create new aligned blocks and once I delete the old file it should be > defragmented mostly. > > Is this correct ? And if so, kvm disks are mounted as raw devices, so I guess > my idea wont work anyway. Is there an alternative or is this a fools errant ? > > Cheers, > matthias > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
