From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: heinzm@redhat.com, device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm-thinp: new device mapper target to thin provision storage
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:41:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA341F1.70305@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285759512.23010.1.camel@o>
On 9/29/2010 7:25 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 17:44 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> How is this different than snapshotting a zero target?
>
> Like Hanness mentioned: you can free space.
Could you clarify that a bit? Is space only freed if you reduce the
length of a device? You can't do the same with a snapshot?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 20:49 [PATCH] dm-thinp: new device mapper target to thin provision storage Heinz Mauelshagen
2010-09-28 21:44 ` Phillip Susi
2010-09-29 6:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-09-29 11:25 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2010-09-29 11:25 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2010-09-29 13:41 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2010-09-29 15:20 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
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