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Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (ergaster.org)

submitted 9 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It definitely depends. If you use qcow2 files for your disks, they're a copy-on-write format, which is slower than most file systems inherently. If the host system is also a copy-on-write file system, then it doubles your writes outright.

If you're using raw disks/partitions, there is minimal overhead that usually comes down to usually miniscule driver differences. Although depending on what the VM platform supports, you might outright lose snapshot/restore support.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I'm running ZFS with raw disks, and most things are in containers anyways, just a few VMs for Windows or stuff that doesn't like containers.