From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Thornber Subject: [ANNOUNCE] thin-provisioning-tools v0.4.0 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 13:32:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20140903123232.GA25313@debian> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids There's a new release of the increasingly inaccurately named thin-provisioning-tools: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools/releases/tag/v0.4.0 This contains tools for manipulating the dm metadata for dm-thin, dm-cache and dm-era. There is also an updated thinp_xml Ruby gem which can generate, parse and emit the XML format of the above three metadata types. https://rubygems.org/gems/thinp_xml Changes ======= - All tools switch to using libaio. This gives a large performance boost, especially to the write focused tools like thin_restore. - Added a progress monitor to thin_restore, cache_restore and era_restore - Added a --quiet/-q option to *_restore to turn off the progress bar - Removed variable hint size support from cache tools. The kernel still only supports a fixed 32bit width. This will have a side effect of reducing the executable sizes due to less template instatiation. - Tools rolled into a single executable to save space. - Fixed some bugs when walking bitsets (possibly effecting cache_dump and cache_check).