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Comparison tables
Solidity in front of failures and security
| Feature
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OVZ Ploop
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OVZ SimFS (ext4)
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LVM (ext4)
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ZFS (~simfs)
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| I/O isolation
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Good
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Bad: Some bug could be exploited to escape CT and access HN file system [1] [2]
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Good
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Good
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| Reliability
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Low: big amount of files produce ext4 corruption so often
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Medium: fsck, power loss and HW Raid without cache can kill whole data
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High: LVM metadata can be corrupted completely
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Excellent: no write hole, checksumming and COW
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| Filesystem over filesystem
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Yes
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No
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No
|
?
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| Effect of HN filesystem corruption at /vz
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No effect
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Same FS
|
?
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?
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| Maturity in O/VZ
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Since 2012
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Since ~2005
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Since 1998
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Since 2014
|
Performance and design features
| Feature
|
OVZ Ploop
|
OVZ SimFS (ext4)
|
LVM (ext4)
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ZFS (~simfs)
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| Maximum container volume space
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4 TiB [3]
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1 EiB [4]
|
?
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256 ZiB
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| Wasted space due to architecture
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up to 20%
|
No
|
up to 20%
|
?
|
| Disk i/o speed
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Fast in any case
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Very fast with small amount of containers
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Fast in any case
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Fast in any case
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| Disk space overcommit (provide more space for containers than available on server now)
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Different containers may use file systems of different types and properties
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Second level quotes in Linux (inside container)
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Not implemented
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| Potential support for QCOW2 and other image formats
|
Yes
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No
|
No
|
No
|
| Incremental backup support on filesystem level
|
Yes, through snapshots
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No
|
No
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Yes
|
Administrator operations
| Feature
|
OVZ Ploop
|
OVZ SimFS (ext4)
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LVM (ext4)
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ZFS (~simfs)
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| vzctl integration
|
Complete
|
Complete
|
No, many manual operations
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No, some manual operations
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| External compaction for container volumes
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Needed for saving HN space
|
No
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Not available
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Not required
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| Access to private area from host
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Yes
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Yes
|
?
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?
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| Live backup
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Easy, fast and consistent[5] [6]
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Easy, slow, and sometimes inconsistent in case some application depends on inode IDs
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Fast
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Fast theoretically
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| Snapshot support
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Yes[7]
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No theoretically, because of much/small files to be copied
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Yes
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Yes
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| Live migration
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Reliable and fast
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Not reliable and slow, if some application depends on inode IDs
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Not implemented
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Fast theoretically
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| Continue failed CT migration
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Yes, in vzctl from OpenVZ -stable
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Yes, option "--keep-dst"
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Not implemented
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?
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