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From: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
To: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Cc: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>,
	Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Potential enhancements to dm-thin v2
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:29:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220412142905.GA26912@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a6c09ad-73c9-2450-f1fb-0e3e4ba438e6@redhat.com>

Dne 11. 04. 22 v 0:03 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a):
> For quite a while, I have wanted to write a tool to manage thin volumes       
> that is not based on LVM. 

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:32:09AM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Here is actually the fundamental problem with your proposal - our design was
> about careful split between user-space and kernel 'who is the owner/holder
> of information'  - your proposal unfortunately does not fit the model where
> lvm2 is the authoritative owner of info about devices

The proposal is a new tool to manage dm-thin devices, not to rewrite lvm.
I would hope the tool is nothing at all like lvm, but rather "thinsetup"
in the tradition of dmsetup, cryptsetup.  I think it's a great idea and
have wanted such a tool for years.  I have a feeling that many have
already written ad hoc thinsetup-like tools, and there would be fairly
broad interest in it (especially if it has a proper lib api.)

Dave
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-12 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-10 22:03 [dm-devel] Potential enhancements to dm-thin v2 Demi Marie Obenour
2022-04-11  8:16 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-04-11 17:22   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-04-11 20:16     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-04-11 22:30       ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-04-12  9:32         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-04-12 11:58           ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-04-12 14:29           ` David Teigland [this message]
2022-04-13  7:55             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2022-04-13 15:00               ` Demi Marie Obenour

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