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[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:42, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Friday 27 October 2006 15:07, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:
>> One of the downsides of file based images is I/O performance, right?
>> Won't that have an adverse effect on the builders versus LVM?
>
> Yes.  I just talked w/ our Xen folks and they recommend using LVM,  
> and doing
> lvm snapshots, back up the snapshot to an image file, so that in an  
> emergency
> a guest could be brought up on another machine using the image file.

A variation could be having the "system partition" in a relatively  
static small-ish image file and the build path on an LVM partition...


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