Re: Linux domU disk questions

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 10:46:56PM +0000, Gerard Lally wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:20:16 +0100
> Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gerard,
> >   
> > > Do I fdisk and disklabel this second disk in NetBSD or just leave it
> > > blank for Slackware's fdisk to partition?  
> > 
> > Leave it blank if you want to use phy:.  I myself only use file or
> > lvm based vdisks.  
> 
> [apologies - I replied to this privately by mistake]
> 
> Thank you Pierre-Philipp; I have found your other guides very useful
> as well.
> 
> Is LVM-backed domU as fast as domU on physical disk?

I'm not sure the speed difference, if any, is measurable. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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