My colleague koct9i, whose daily job is developing and fixing OpenVZ kernel, was feeling bored last weekend, and to entertain himself he wrote a small utility called ioping. The idea is simple and straightforward: to wrote a utility similar to ping, which will show I/O latency in the same way ping shows network latency. The idea is very simple but I haven't see something like this. Actually, the tool was written to help investigating OpenVZ bug #1880).
I liked ioping and worked on it a bit, too, just for run. Among some other minor stuff I have added a man page and spec file, so it is now available as an RPM package.
I tried it and was able to migrate a CentOS 7 container... but the Fedora 22 one seems to be stuck in the "started" phase. It creates a /vz/private/{ctid} dir on the destination host (with the same…
The fall semester is just around the corner... so it is impossible for me to break away for a trip to Seattle. I hope one or more of you guys can blog so I can attend vicariously.
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