On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:25:25 +0100 Marcin Sucho�ebrski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Have anyone tried to mount vhost through loop image? > > I have 18GB SCSI disk and made 6*2GB files (dd if=/dev/zero > of=/TEST.filesystem bs=1024k count=2048) > then made ext3 filesystem on them (mkfs.ext3 /TEST.filesystem), then > mounted via loop device (mount -o loop /TEST.filesystem /vservers/01) > and then installed debian scrap with little changed Mark Lawrence's > script (sh ch_newvserver 01 mydomain.pl 172.16.1.101). > > Works very good. Performance is good. Flexibility is excellent. > > What kind of "bad things" i can expect with this kind of filesystems and > vhosts? loop devices are very lazy synced with the real disk files, so performance might look good at a first view .. but if the system crashes or on a power outage u will certainly loose data and maybe ur filesystem will be corrupted, even ext3 logging wont help much with that. > > -- > Regards, > Marcin Sucho�ebrski >
