[Xen-users] Re: Differences in performance between file and LVM based images.

[Ligesh <myself@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> said.
> > 
> >  Hello folks,
> > 
> >  How much is the performance penalty if you use a file 
> > instead of an LVM? Has there been any benchmarks on this?
> 
> I haven't done any benchmarks, but I would like to point out that it
> would depend VERY MUCH on exactly what the application running on top of
> the VM is. 
> 

 And how will that depend on the application?  Disk access is pretty much about 
the read/write/seek times right? Do you mean that there are some applications 
that will be faster on file based disks, and some others that faster on LVMs? 

 Thanks a lot for your time.

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