16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
1:08 a.m.
On 06/15/2011 03:46 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
I've seen vmware disk emulation -> LVM -> partitions run very, very slowly. Didn't diagnose it beyond thinking "if it hurts, don't do it", though. And I don't remember if it was a sparse disk or not, but it probably was. Could have been an issue in the way the growing drive space is allocated on the physical side.
Any disk layout that doesn't align filesystem blocks with actual disk blocks is going to perform very badly.