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From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM performance vs direct dm-thin
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:52:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee795126229835d2ce14c2c9619b73f@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfcAucYQ+GIMpW6t@itl-email>

Il 2022-01-30 22:17 Demi Marie Obenour ha scritto:
> On Xen, the paravirtualised block backend driver (blkback) requires a
> block device, so file-based virtual disks are implemented with a loop
> device managed by the toolstack.  Suggestions for improving this
> less-than-satisfactory situation are welcome.

Ah - I expected that with something as

disk = [ 'file:mydisk.img,hda,w' ]

Xen would have directly used "mydisk.img" as the backend disk file. Does 
it instead automatically create a loopback overlay?

I mainly use KVM, and maybe I am spoiled by its capability to use 
basically any datastore as backing disk.
Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 20:34 [linux-lvm] LVM performance vs direct dm-thin Demi Marie Obenour
2022-01-29 21:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-01-30  0:32   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-01-30 10:52     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-01-30 16:45       ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-01-30 17:43         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-01-30 20:27           ` Gionatan Danti
2022-01-30 21:17             ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-01-31  7:52               ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
2022-02-02  2:09           ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-02-02 10:04             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-02-03  0:23               ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-02-03 12:04                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-02-03 12:04                   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-01-30 21:39         ` Stuart D. Gathman
2022-01-30 22:14           ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-01-31 21:29             ` Marian Csontos
2022-02-03  4:48               ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-02-03 12:28                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-02-04  0:01                   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-02-04 10:16                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-01-31  7:47           ` Gionatan Danti

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