<div dir="ltr">One thing I didn't put on there, if I am doing anything less than 100GB, it a cow .img file ( QEMU/KVM ), anything bigger than that, I do a lvm slice and use the lvm like a real hard drive, I get better performance doing that, we have 10 mysql servers that run great, better than when we used Xen. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:58 AM, leam hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> On Dec 9, 2014 11:47 AM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in virtual<br>
>> machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff like /var off<br>
>> onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's necessary in a<br>
>> virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions before I can be<br>
>> validated in mine.<br>
>><br>
>> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> James Sumners<br>
>> <a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
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</span>Keep in mind that some security practices require separate<br>
filesystems. DoD STIGs, at least.<br>
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