On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > Nicely done! > I wonder if this feature will be ever backported to EL6 KVM. > Also, if anyone knows, would there be any performance benefit from using > this method instead of using the raw file in a mounted glusterfs dir? There is a good performance improvement in using this method instead of using raw VM image file from gluster FUSE mount. Refer to the FIO performance numbers from these mailing thread discussions: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg02718.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2012-08/msg00063.html Regards, Bharata.