Javier Guerra <jav...@guerrag.com> writes: > i'd just want to add my '+1 votes' on both getting rid of JVM > dependency and using block devices (usually LVM) instead of ext3/btrfs
If the chunks into which the virtual drives are split are quite small (say the 64MB used by Hadoop), LVM may be a less appropriate choice. It doesn't support very large numbers of very small logical volumes very well. Best wishes, Chris.