[Openstack] libvirt vs. Xen driver handling of local storage

Soren Hansen soren at linux2go.dk
Wed Aug 31 20:34:22 UTC 2011


2011/8/31 Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com>:
>> Can you elaborate on this? Both methods resize the disk, how does the
>> second method impose more limitations than the first?
> In the first case it is perfectly reasonable to have a whole disk image that is of a decent size for the base image, so you can get by just fine with the secondary attached disk if the resize does nothing. So to me that is a lot more flexible.

Ah, gotcha. Makes sense.

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