Re: Large qcow2 performance

2019-09-25 Thread Andrew Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Alberto Garcia" > To: "qemu-discuss" > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:05:50 AM > Subject: Re: Large qcow2 performance > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:45:10PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: >> Hi Berto, >

Re: Large qcow2 performance

2019-09-25 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:45:10PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: > Hi Berto, > > Thank you for the detailed explanation! It is also worth noting that > I am planning on hosting this qcow2 on a ZFS dataset (and ZFS does > some in-memory caching with the ARC as well); does that have an > impact on

Re: Large qcow2 performance

2019-09-24 Thread Andrew Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Alberto Garcia" > To: "qemu-discuss" > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:15:56 AM > Subject: Re: Large qcow2 performance > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: > >> I am considering

Re: Large qcow2 performance

2019-09-24 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:17:39PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote: > I am considering creating a VM with a large qcow2, around 6TB in > size. This Linux VM will be reading and writing a lot of small > files to this very large qcow2 using the VirtIO driver. Are there > any concerns or guidance about

Large qcow2 performance

2019-09-23 Thread Andrew Martin
Hello, I am considering creating a VM with a large qcow2, around 6TB in size. This Linux VM will be reading and writing a lot of small files to this very large qcow2 using the VirtIO driver. Are there any concerns or guidance about creating such a large qcow2, or performance issues with small