Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 05:46:20PM -0500, 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.

Trainwreck and should not be done in production environments; if this is indeed the cause of "1-hour" installs alternatives should be found as that is simply too pathetic for mere words.

John