[Users] Ploop Random I/O
Devon B.
devon.b at virtualcomplete.com
Tue Sep 30 08:31:32 PDT 2014
You should read more of the resources available at openvz.org:
http://openvz.org/Ploop/Getting_started#Resizing_a_ploop_image
There are no specific inode settings for ploop, it creates a private
ext4 filesystem for each container, therefore the inode limit is only
dependent on the filesystem (ext4).
On 9/30/2014 10:49 AM, Matt wrote:
> 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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