storage considerations

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 4 08:05:18 PST 2009


Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano at free.fr):
> Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I think we should have several options for the root storage:
> >
> > 1.) simply use the host filesystem (like Openvz)
> >
> > 	- special quota support is needed (simfs?)
> >
> > 	- quota support depends on ext3 fs, so this only works for
> > 	  local attached storage (does not work on NFS)
> >
> > 	- LVM snapshots are slow, because the snapshot includes all
> > container
> > 	  on that filesystem.

I'm looking forward to the btrfs, tux3, and nilfs snapshotting
capabilities.

-serge


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