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From: Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org>
To: lvm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: cache support
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:12:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <185501cf2c2d$53f02030$fbd06090$@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C83CD55-18B6-4407-9A42-72F9D6C5683D@redhat.com>

> From: Brassow Jonathan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:40 AM
> 
> I'll let others weigh-in on the overhead of introducing thin-provisioning.
> However, my experience is that the overhead is very small and the benefit
is
> very large.
[...]
> You now have a very fast thin pool from which you will create thin volumes
> and snapshots.  Everything is cached with low overhead.

Hmm, interesting; this would allow me to work within the confines of the
intended lvm cache support yet achieve my goal of using a single cache
device for all of my LV's. That does seem preferable to trying to manage
dm-cache manually with dmsetup.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05  1:51 cache support Paul B. Henson
2014-02-05  7:35 ` Oliver Rath
2014-02-05 20:12   ` Paul B. Henson
2014-02-05  9:35 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-02-05 20:20   ` Paul B. Henson
2014-02-05 21:29     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-02-06  1:36       ` Paul B. Henson
2014-02-11 17:24         ` Brassow Jonathan
2014-02-11 21:04           ` Paul B. Henson
2014-02-12 17:39             ` Brassow Jonathan
2014-02-17 22:12               ` Paul B. Henson [this message]
2014-03-11 23:54               ` Paul B. Henson
2014-03-17 15:56                 ` Brassow Jonathan
2014-03-18  1:07                   ` Paul B. Henson
2014-03-29  1:38                   ` Paul B. Henson
2014-03-29  1:43                     ` Paul B. Henson
2014-04-02 20:34                       ` Brassow Jonathan
2014-04-03  2:54                         ` Paul B. Henson

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