On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 20:37 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 07:17 -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> > SCT> It depends on the environment. To support cold/live migration,
> > SCT> having network-attached storage will be required; and file images
> > SCT> on NFS would be an extremely simple-to-setup way to achieve that.
> >
> > Ah, but block devices can play too. With dm-userspace, we could
> > migrate a domain from one machine to another, faulting the needed
> > blocks from its block devices on-demand, and copying the rest in the
> > background. This would give us a peer-to-peer setup where block
> > devices could slowly move from machine to machine, following its
> > owner. Once your block was accessed (or copied in the background),
> > it's local and fast. A peer-to-peer NAS setup.
>
> Could be useful in places, but it introduces a number of new
> dependencies. The destination host now relies on the source host for
> data, so if the source crashes, you crash the destination too; and if
> you power-cycle, how do you track where in your cluster the latest copy
> of the block device is?
It's easy. You run code to coordinate the mapping inside a
fault-tolerant virtual machine which persists across node failures and
cluster power cycles.
>
> A true NAS solution isolates the Xen hosts from these problems.
>
> --Stephen
>
>
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