<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2013 01:52 PM, Ed Cashin
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:CADvA-dnbqxRZzQ1f1X9fFbFpwSbiAq5dU3iBBoK5UR0rGaebWQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">When you're creating disposable, seldom-used VMs for
development, thin provisioning can be nice, and you can often get
by with something more lightweight than LVM---sparse files.</blockquote>
<br>
I've never managed to get VMs running on top of sparse files with
any level of performance matching a simple volume-on-LVM. To be
fair, I last tried that strategy several years ago, back when btrfs
was new and ext4 was still relatively new.<br>
<br>
Being that what I have works quite well today, and seems to scale to
at least tens of TB.<br>
<br>
— Mike<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> <img src="cid:part1.08020904.05080609@naunetcorp.com"
alt="Naunet Corporation Logo"> </td>
<td> Michael B. Trausch<br>
<br>
President, <strong>Naunet Corporation</strong><br>
☎ (678) 287-0693 x130 or (855) NAUNET-1 x130<br>
FAX: (678) 783-7843<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>