[Users] Ploop Random I/O

[Matt]

In ploop, can inodes and disk size easily be increased for a container?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
> On 09/19/2014 11:45 AM, Matt wrote:
>>
>> I have a container currently using about 150GB of space.  It is very
>> random I/O hungry.  Has many small files.  Will converting it to ploop
>> hurt I/O performance?
>
> In case of many small files it might actually improve the performance.
>
> ploop performance is very close to usual FS, except for then the image
> is growing -- this operation somewhat slows it down as it needs to allocate
> extra blocks and modify the block address table. I guess it's not an issue
> in your case.
>
> But don't take my word for it, give it a try yourself!
>
> Kir.
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