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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>,
	MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:05:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE1E25C.9010404@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091023145815.GE18955@arachsys.com>

Chris Webb wrote:
> Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> writes:
> 
>> i'd just want to add my '+1 votes' on both getting rid of JVM
>> dependency and using block devices (usually LVM) instead of ext3/btrfs
> 
> If the chunks into which the virtual drives are split are quite small (say
> the 64MB used by Hadoop), LVM may be a less appropriate choice. It doesn't
> support very large numbers of very small logical volumes very well.

Also, on _loaded_ systems, I noticed creating/removing logical volumes 
can take really long (several minutes); where allocating a file of a 
given size would just take a fraction of that.

Sot sure how it would matter here, but probably it would.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org




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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:05:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE1E25C.9010404@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091023145815.GE18955@arachsys.com>

Chris Webb wrote:
> Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> writes:
> 
>> i'd just want to add my '+1 votes' on both getting rid of JVM
>> dependency and using block devices (usually LVM) instead of ext3/btrfs
> 
> If the chunks into which the virtual drives are split are quite small (say
> the 64MB used by Hadoop), LVM may be a less appropriate choice. It doesn't
> support very large numbers of very small logical volumes very well.

Also, on _loaded_ systems, I noticed creating/removing logical volumes 
can take really long (several minutes); where allocating a file of a 
given size would just take a fraction of that.

Sot sure how it would matter here, but probably it would.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-23 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-21  5:13 [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-21  5:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-21  8:28 ` Nikolai K. Bochev
2009-10-21  8:28   ` [Qemu-devel] " Nikolai K. Bochev
2009-10-21  8:45 ` Nikolai K. Bochev
2009-10-21  8:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Nikolai K. Bochev
2009-10-23  9:59   ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23  9:59     ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-21  9:08 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-21  9:08 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-21  9:08   ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 10:06   ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 10:06     ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 10:17     ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 10:17       ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Webb
2009-10-23 10:26       ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 10:26         ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Webb
2009-10-23 11:10     ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 11:10       ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 11:45       ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 11:45         ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-22 15:30 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-22 15:30   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-22 16:28   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-22 16:28     ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-10-22 22:09     ` Alexander Graf
2009-10-22 22:09       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2009-10-23 10:41   ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 10:41     ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 11:10     ` Alexander Graf
2009-10-23 11:10       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2009-10-23 16:17       ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 14:14     ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 14:14       ` [Qemu-devel] " Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 14:58       ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 14:58         ` Chris Webb
2009-10-23 15:10         ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 15:10           ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 17:05         ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2009-10-23 17:05           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-25  8:44           ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-25  8:44             ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-25 10:55             ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-25 10:55               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-23 15:40       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-10-23 15:40         ` [Qemu-devel] " FUJITA Tomonori
2009-10-25  5:36         ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-25  5:36           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-25  8:51       ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-25  8:51         ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-26  6:53         ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-26  6:53           ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-22 18:46 ` Avishay Traeger
2009-10-22 18:46   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avishay Traeger
2009-10-22 18:53 ` Avishay Traeger
2009-10-23 15:41   ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 11:22 ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 11:22   ` [Qemu-devel] " Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-23 19:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-23 19:45   ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-23 19:45     ` Javier Guerra
2009-10-24  2:49     ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-24  2:49       ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-28  3:53 ` MORITA Kazutaka
2009-10-28  3:53   ` [Qemu-devel] " MORITA Kazutaka

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