Re: Any suggestions for thousands of disk image snapshots ?

2016-07-26 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2016-07-26 10:42, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Kurt Seo wrote: 2016-07-26 5:49 GMT+09:00 Chris Murphy : On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Kurt Seo wrote: Hi all I am currently

Re: Any suggestions for thousands of disk image snapshots ?

2016-07-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Kurt Seo wrote: > 2016-07-26 5:49 GMT+09:00 Chris Murphy : >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Kurt Seo >> wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> >>> I am currently running a project for

Re: Any suggestions for thousands of disk image snapshots ?

2016-07-26 Thread Kurt Seo
2016-07-26 5:49 GMT+09:00 Chris Murphy : > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Kurt Seo > wrote: >> Hi all >> >> >> I am currently running a project for building servers with btrfs. >> Purposes of servers are exporting disk images through

Re: Any suggestions for thousands of disk image snapshots ?

2016-07-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > 1. mdadm raid10 + LVM thinp + either XFS or Btrfs. You probably want to use LVM thin provisioning because its snapshot implementation is much faster and more hands off than thick provisioning. And you'll need to

Re: Any suggestions for thousands of disk image snapshots ?

2016-07-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Kurt Seo wrote: > Hi all > > > I am currently running a project for building servers with btrfs. > Purposes of servers are exporting disk images through iscsi targets > and disk images are generated from btrfs subvolume snapshot.

Any suggestions for thousands of disk image snapshots ?

2016-07-25 Thread Kurt Seo
Hi all I am currently running a project for building servers with btrfs. Purposes of servers are exporting disk images through iscsi targets and disk images are generated from btrfs subvolume snapshot. Maximum number of clients is 500 and each client uses two snapshots of disk images. the