From: James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Snapshots and disk re-use
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:53:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9BC789.3060508@ankh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9BC63A.9040306@abpni.co.uk>
On 06/04/2011 01:47, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>
> Currently, as part of our procedure, we zero LVs once a customer has
> left our service. The reason why we don't zero on allocation is that
> customer usually expect quick setup times (under 10 minutes) and
> zeroing gigabytes worth of space can take too long. Getting new zeroed
> LVs ready before sign ups also isn't an option but for other reasons.
Very reasonable
It however is a shame than lvm cannot zero PE (physical extents) on
first access or do a proper background initialisation. As would happen
on hardware raids.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-06 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 12:36 [linux-lvm] Snapshots and disk re-use Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 13:09 ` Joe Thornber
2011-02-23 13:57 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 14:16 ` Joe Thornber
2011-02-23 14:18 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 16:12 ` Ray Morris
2011-02-23 16:55 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 17:54 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 18:05 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 19:34 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 18:05 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 18:19 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 18:39 ` Les Mikesell
2011-02-23 19:39 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 20:03 ` Les Mikesell
2011-02-23 20:37 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 20:49 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 23:25 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 23:42 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 0:09 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 0:32 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 0:37 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 0:40 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 2:00 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 7:33 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 14:50 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 14:57 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 15:13 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 15:20 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 16:41 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-24 19:15 ` Nataraj
2011-02-24 19:25 ` Les Mikesell
2011-02-24 19:55 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 19:19 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 19:45 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-24 21:22 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-05 20:09 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-05 20:41 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-05 20:48 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-05 20:59 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-05 21:36 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-05 22:42 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-05 22:52 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-05 23:11 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-05 23:19 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-05 23:39 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-06 0:00 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-06 0:08 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-06 0:14 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-06 0:16 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-06 0:28 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-06 0:38 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-06 0:43 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-04-06 1:36 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-06 1:47 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-06 1:53 ` James Hawtin [this message]
2011-04-06 0:47 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-06 0:42 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-06 0:50 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-04-06 1:20 ` James Hawtin
2011-04-06 1:45 ` Jonathan Tripathy
2011-02-23 19:49 ` Nataraj
2011-02-23 19:24 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 19:07 ` [linux-lvm] Problem executing lvm related commands Tinni
2011-02-23 19:33 ` [linux-lvm] Snapshots and disk re-use Phillip Susi
2011-02-23 19:45 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-02-23 19:56 ` Nataraj
2011-02-23 13:18 ` Sunil_Gupta2
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