Re: [Xen-devel] blktap3 as a block device?

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Darren Shepherd
<darren.s.shepherd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So currently blktap2 can be used outside of Xen, but I don't think many
> people do that.  I have a use case now where I must support KVM (I currently
> run only Xen servers) and found the disk snapshotting to be not as nice as
> what I can do with vhd's in blktap2 (and a half).  So I was thinking of
> actually trying to just run blktap for the storage.  So I'm pretty pleased
> with that solution and functionally it works just fine.
>
> The problem now is blktap3.  So is there going to be any way to use blktap3
> outside of Xen?  If blktap3 is the future I probably won't continue with my
> blktap/kvm solution.

Since AFAIK blktap3 is not even in xen-unstable, personally I'd just
use something with more userbase and better tested. Something like
zfsonlinux. It has support for sparse zvols, as well as snapshot and
clones.

-- 
Fajar

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