On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > FWIW, Workstation 7.1 is fairly adamant about stating "if you want > faster disk I/O, pre-allocate the disk space rather than let disk use > grow dynamically". I've never tested this however.
Anecdotal, as I have no comparative performance figures to hand, but under VMware Server 2 on Windows, performance of non pre-allocated disks is dire and SCSI emulation is better than IDE. -- Adrian Wontroba Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
