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Great discussion. Thanks Jay On Mar 29, 2012 2:12 PM, "Mark Woodward" <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote: > On 03/29/2012 01:59 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> >> I see very little, if any, argument in favor of using the file. I >> suppose, >> if you wanted to run your virtual head on some other machine, then you >> could >> export your file via NFS instead of iscsi, and that gives you one extra >> degree of freedom if you're using a file. Also, if you got something >> like a >> snapshotting storage server, you could migrate your file over to that >> server, and benefit by snapshots. >> > The only reason why I would consider a "file" instead of an LVM volume is > that you have a "file" that can be copied and backed up easily. It is > relocatable in that it cam be moved from one file system to another and it > can bring its size with it. The LVM device is more or less dependent on the > LVM create command and the admin ensuring that a properly sized device is > created if you want to move it to a different machine. I guess you could us > dd to copy the device (or a snapshot) to a file to move it around, but you > see the issue. > > There are definitely a list of pros and cons. It's interesting to see what > other people think. So far, I think the "pros" go to LVM. > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/**listinfo/discuss<http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >
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