Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM

Chris Webb
2009-10-23T14:58:15Z

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.

Best wishes,

Chris.