[sheepdog] Using sheepfs to modify virtual machine images of window7 takes a long time

[Liu Yuan]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:27:00AM +0000, 周鹏 wrote:
> Hello,i test the sheepfs of sheepdog version 0.6.0_22_g8032354.
> I build a cluster of 4 linux machine and it works well.
> But i want to inject metadata to the basic image of windows7 when it is created first time.
> So i use the sheepfs to mount the image,here is my command:
> 
> #mount -o loop,rw,offset=105906176 /home/sheepfs/volume/win7_clone /home/win7 -t ntfs-3g
> 
> It takes about 2 minutes to finish the mount. what a long time!
> 
> I think the time is mainly spented on the mount,so if i user "collie vdi write" can shorten the time.
> but i am not sure.
> Can you give me some advice to improve the performance? thanks.

what is the command you started sheepfs and sheep?

Thanks
Yuan