On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:04:28PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > I'm happy to hear it argued I should instead use the LV space for a > regular partition formatted ext2 and drop the qcow2 file > there. There's still overhead of two file systems there, but may > compare to LV performance. I guess you'll have to try that and see how it works out. However don't use ext2. Use ext4 which supports extents and hence will have much lower metadata over for big files like disk images. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
