From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Sparse LVs, --virtualsize equal to --size
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:42:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124234235.GB3122@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51017F0C.20100@bmsi.com>
So look at thin provisioning with its zeroing option.
External origin. (support currently being added to lvm)
Or this not-yet-upstream target:
http://people.redhat.com/agk/patches/linux/editing/dm-add-zeroed-target.patch
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-24 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-24 15:53 [linux-lvm] Sparse LVs, --virtualsize equal to --size Vangelis Koukis
2013-01-24 18:08 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-24 18:35 ` Stuart D Gathman
2013-01-24 23:42 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2013-01-25 8:44 ` Vangelis Koukis
2013-01-25 12:29 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-01-25 16:19 ` Vangelis Koukis
2013-01-28 13:50 ` Marian Csontos
2013-01-29 8:24 ` Vangelis Koukis
2013-01-31 16:22 ` Lars Ellenberg
2013-02-06 16:05 ` Vangelis Koukis
2013-01-25 8:39 ` Vangelis Koukis
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