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Re: [Xen-users] File-based FS vs others

Greg,

Why don't you just mount it and copy the stuff over to a physical/logical volume? That's what I did. For example, for download the Debian 3.1 image file from jailtime, and do the following from your dom0:

# mount -o loop debian.3-1.img /mnt
# mkdir -p /osTemplates/debian31_base
# cp -ax /mnt/* /osTemplates/debian31_base

Make a swap file, create a config file, and away you go!

S





On May 23, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On 5/23/06, Stephen Yum <steveyum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm curious about this method. It seems very convenient, jailtime.org
has a bunch you can simply download and run. But how are they in
terms of performance? Can't imagine it can be good to use as a disk-
intensive, production domU.

Does anyone know how it compares to say straight IDE partition, IDE +
software RAID, or even IDE + software RAID + LVM?

While at it, what do you all think is the best domU FS setup?

S

Newbie question.

Can't you create a partition bigger than the filesystems at jail.org, then use dd to put them on the raw partition?

ie.
download the filesystem from jail.org as the file orig_file_from_jail.org
dd if=orig_file_from_jail.org of=/dev/hda6 bs=4k

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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