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From: Florent <flouc@laposte.net>
Subject: Re: Poor Write I/O Performance on KVM-79
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:48:10 +0100
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Rodrigo,

KVM can use Logical Volume as a field of bytes to store the back-end of 
the guest HDD. Doing this, the overhead of the partition format is 
avoided at host side and things should be faster.

- Florent