Re: lvm volume like support

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013 schrieb Fajar A. Nugraha:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Mike Fleetwood
> 
> <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 25 February 2013 23:35, Suman C <schakrava@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I think it would be great if there is a lvm volume or zfs zvol type
> >> support in btrfs.
> > 
> > Btrfs already has capabilities to add and remove block devices on the
> > fly.  Data can be stripped or mirrored or both.  Raid 5/6 is in
> > testing at the moment.
> > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devic
> > es https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UseCases#RAID
> > 
> > Which specific features do you think btrfs is lacking?
> 
> I think he's talking about zvol-like feature.
> 
> In zfs, instead of creating a
> filesystem-that-is-accessible-as-a-directory, you can create a zvol
> which behaves just like any other standard block device (e.g. you can
> use it as swap, or create ext4 filesystem on top of it). But it would
> also have most of the benefits that a normal zfs filesystem has, like:
> - thin provisioning (sparse allocation, snapshot & clone)
> - compression
> - integrity check (via checksum)
> 
> Typical use cases would be:
> - swap in a pure-zfs system
> - virtualization (xen, kvm, etc)
> - NAS which exports the block device using iscsi/AoE
> 
> AFAIK no such feature exist in btrfs yet.

Sounds like the RADOS block device stuff for Ceph.

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