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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm-thinp: new device mapper target to thin
 provision storage
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:29:34 +0200
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Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/28/2010 4:49 PM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
>> These are 2 new device mapper targets "thinp" and "thinp-dev"
>> implemented in one module, which allow for thin provisioning of storage
>> on a single host from a storage pool to an arbitrary amount of devices.
> =

> How is this different than snapshotting a zero target?
> =

Main difference is that you actually can free up space.
You can't with snapshotting as then a rollback
becomes impossible.

Cheers,

Hannes
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