On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:45:52PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, t. johnson wrote:
> >Lets say I have a simple-ish setup that uses vmware files for
> >virtual disks on an NFS share from zfs. I'm wondering how zfs'
> >variable block size comes into play? Does it make the ali
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, thomas wrote:
> Hmm.. I guess that's what I've heard as well.
>
> I do run compression and believe a lot of others would as well. So then, it
> seems
> to me that if I have guests that run a filesystem formatted with 4k blocks for
> example.. I'm inevitably going
Hmm.. I guess that's what I've heard as well.
I do run compression and believe a lot of others would as well. So then, it
seems
to me that if I have guests that run a filesystem formatted with 4k blocks for
example.. I'm inevitably going to have this overlap when using ZFS network
storage?
So if
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, t. johnson wrote:
Lets say I have a simple-ish setup that uses vmware files for
virtual disks on an NFS share from zfs. I'm wondering how zfs'
variable block size comes into play? Does it make the alignment
problem go away? Does it make it worse? Or should we perhaps be
One of the things that commonly comes up in the server virtualization world is
making sure that all of the storage elements are "aligned". This is because
there are often so many levels of abstraction each using their own "block size"
that without any tuning, they'll usually overlap and can cau
