[Moosefs-users] Drawbacks of using "filesystems in files" in chunk servers?

[Rujia L. <ruj...@gm...>]

Hi all!

In the reference guide, it is said "If it's not possible to create a
separate disk partition, filesystems in files can be used" and some
instrutions followed. I can imagine that there will be a drop down in
the performance (anyone has some statistical data about this?), but I
don't know whether there are other drawbacks. I'm asking this because
I wanna make use of some existing computers with partially empty
partitions. I think It's a bit risky to resize the partitions.

Thanks!

- Rujia