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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog: Distributed Storage
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:58:15 +0100
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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.