From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@fajar.net>
To: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: blktap3 as a block device?
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:39:39 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG1y0sci4Q8=Vy7i3NPfdYmH6e9rbvrHUPeoz_03+9_GvaHTwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMCEDC0sU+kBkGWmUoWwyOJ8pURZGwVgN1_xqDkt1MvxR-vE4A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Darren Shepherd
<darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> wrote:
> So currently blktap2 can be used outside of Xen, but I don't think many
> people do that. I have a use case now where I must support KVM (I currently
> run only Xen servers) and found the disk snapshotting to be not as nice as
> what I can do with vhd's in blktap2 (and a half). So I was thinking of
> actually trying to just run blktap for the storage. So I'm pretty pleased
> with that solution and functionally it works just fine.
>
> The problem now is blktap3. So is there going to be any way to use blktap3
> outside of Xen? If blktap3 is the future I probably won't continue with my
> blktap/kvm solution.
Since AFAIK blktap3 is not even in xen-unstable, personally I'd just
use something with more userbase and better tested. Something like
zfsonlinux. It has support for sparse zvols, as well as snapshot and
clones.
--
Fajar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-24 0:31 blktap3 as a block device? Darren Shepherd
2012-11-24 0:39 ` Fajar A. Nugraha [this message]
2012-11-24 1:08 ` Darren Shepherd
2012-11-26 10:45 ` Ian Campbell
2012-11-26 10:54 ` Thanos Makatos
2012-11-26 11:48 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-11-26 19:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
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