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Re: Virtualized desktop



On 2014-06-29 13:01:21 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:
> >> My IaaS provider has switched from LVM to ZFS, so I think this is
> >> for some reason...
> >
> > Two in one compared to LVM+whatever, not to mention failure
> > of LVM or whatever usually clobbers the whole thing (definitely),
> > integrated snapshots, insane size of a volume & file (256 ZiB
> > & 16EiB), transparent compression & encryption, small stuffs like
> > that.
> 
> Plus it can replace software RAID as well (at least for RAID1). I'm
> looking into it as my next experiment.
> Assuming it works well under Xen (or vice-versa actually).

ZFS works well with Xen: my IaaS provider (Gandi) uses this
combination.

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