[Sheepdog] qemu-img convert slowness and high availability status

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:45:20 +0900,
MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:35:51 +0200,
> krimson wrote:
> > 
> > time qemu-img convert /dev/vmvg/web /home/spja/ff
> > 
> > real    2m12.866s
> > user    0m0.680s
> > sys    0m11.950s
> > 
> > quite the difference :)
> 
> How long does it take when you run the following?
> 
>  $ qemu-img convert /dev/vmvg/web /data/sheep/web.raw
> 
> I guess your store directory of Sheepdog is /data/sheep. :)
> 
> Anyway, I think we can improve 'qemu-img convert' of Sheepdog much
> more.

How about adding a '-D' option to the sheep daemon arguments?

  # sheep -D -f /data/sheep


Thanks,

Kazutaka