Re: [Xen-users] Converting AND shrinking domU

[James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:09 -0600, Nick Couchman wrote:
> >>> On 2010/04/22 at 10:52, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > I'm currently running xen 3.4 on sles11. I currently use ocfs2, but I'm
> > going to move away from it because of issues we've been having. Instead,
> > we'll be assigning LUNs from our san to the xen servers and domU's will
> > essentially have their own disk. This puts a lot more space requirements
> > in play. With that in mind, I want to shrink a lot of our domUs. 
> > 
> 
> Two questions:
> 1) What issues are you having with OCFS2?
> 2) Does your SAN support "thin provisioning?"
> 3) Why is switching from OCFS2 to raw disks per domU taking up any
> more space?  OCFS2 does not allow for "sparse" disks, which means you
> should see similar disk requirements between OCFS2 and "thick
> provisioning" on your SAN.
> 
> -Nick
> 

I checked with my contact from Novell on one of the tickets I have open.
His response was that it is supported as long as you are on current
code, because they did have issues in the past. Of course he did not say
when the support started. 

James


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