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

Dietmar Maurer
2009-10-25T08:44:12Z

> 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.

Allocating a file takes much longer, unless you use a 'sparse' file.

- Dietmar