[Labs-l] Please delete any unused instances you have sitting around

Wed Jul 10 19:19:05 UTC 2013

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> which reminds me, what about using some filesystem (on virt) which
> supports compression? big chunks of virtual hdds are easy to compress
> and that could save a lot of space as well, but it could hurt
> performance a bit...
>
>
That would require switching out the underlying filesystem, which isn't
simple. Also, there's not really any great filesystem choices for this.
Additionally, we're already using QCOW with backing files, which removes a
very large percentage of the duplication.

- Ryan
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