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RE: [Xen-users] LVM or file storage?

To: "Michael Watters" <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] LVM or file storage?
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:33:07 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Michael Watters
> Sent: 12 February 2007 13:07
> To: Ulrich Windl
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] LVM or file storage?
> 
> Ulrich Windl wrote:
> > On 11 Feb 2007 at 19:57, Michael Watters wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Not to mention some OSes don't support sparse files, like NetBSD.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I always thought DOS FAT (and derived) is the only 
> filesystem that can't do sparse 
> > files. ;-)
> >
> > Ulrich
> You can create them, but the domU won't boot because of I/O 
> errors.  I'm 
> not sure if NetBSD 4 will fix this, but if you want to run a BSD dom0 
> you need fully zeroed out files.

Sounds like a bug in the file-system - surely the content of "not yet
used" sections of a sparse file should return zero's (or some otherwise
defined data)... 

--
Mats
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