Russell Jackson wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> hi, >> I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds >> (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad >> file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup >> / is it true? > > I was doing this with jails --before we moved to VMware ESX (for better or > worse)-- and > didn't see any noticeable performance degradation at the time (6.x series).
Thanks, everyone. I've tracked it down and I heard it from a collegue, only he was talking about unionfs not nullfs. > For those interested, the biggest plus for going to the ESX model is that it > decoupled low > utilization Windows boxes from over-spec'ed hardware and made it available > for FreeBSD to > use ;-). The downsides are that it's proprietary, it's expensive, it's > inefficient (e.g. > duplicated files and kernel instances everywhere), and you need freak'in > Windows boxes to > manage it. Yes, ESX is nice. I've also tried XenServer (the "official" Xen) and it's been terrible - both slow and clunky. Any other experiences?
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