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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt 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 IO again.
If you’re using raw disks/partitions, there is minimal overhead that usually comes down to usually miniscule driver differences.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day 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.