On 4/28/05, Marc A. Volovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XFS is optimized for sequential access performance.
Just to clarify, do you mean batch type processing? > > It's work with small files (especially MANY small files) is dismall. Most of the VM disk files are in the 4-10 GB range, inside there will be a lot of random access (the VM's are Windows machines). I actually have no idea how this will manifest itself on the host OS. > > I suggest piloting JFS. Seems reasonable. > > M > > Gil Freund wrote: > > >On 4/28/05, Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>It is my understanding that XFS mechanism do a lot of caching to memory > >>to achieve good performance. This is a consideration between stability > >>in the case of catastrophy to performance. > >> > >> > > > >2 x PSU, 2 x UPS and a generator should take care of power issues. > > > >How about day to day stability in high I/O? I had bad experience with > >ext3 on mail stores (small files) and virtual tapes (large files) even > >without crashes. > > > > > > > >>Regards, > >> tzahi. > >> > >> > >> > >>>-----Original Message----- > >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Freund > >>>Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:56 PM > >>>To: IGLU Mailing list > >>>Subject: VMware GSX host file systems > >>> > >>> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. > >>>While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am > >>>wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS for the > >>>VM image partition, as it seems both perform better with large files. > >>> > >>>On a side note, can anyone share information on performance > >>>of the ESX product vs. the GSX product on Linux? Aside from > >>>memory over-committing, most ESX functions (such as vMotion) > >>>are not relevant to me. > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>> > >>>Gil > >>> > >>>====================== > >>>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run > >>>the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > >=============================================================== > >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
