From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:29:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5287E3CA.2000809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52877117.5030709@libertytrek.org>
On 16/11/2013 15:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Just wanted to start a new thread about this...
>
> Would appreciate any responses from anyone using this...
>
> Why did you choose it?
>
> What has your experience been?
>
> Any problems? If so, how did you overcome them?
>
> If you had to do it all over again, would you still use it? If so, would
> you do anything differently?
>
> It appears that the best use scenario may be for cloud hosting providers
> like Linode - and they of course would also benefit greatly from the new
> systemd init system (which was funded/designed by RedHat primarily for
> this specific use case).
>
Do you need to overcommit storage? On this question, if you need it then
you are already very aware that you need it as you will have way too
many customers and way too few disk drives.
For all other general cases you do not need it, you just buy more (cheap
in relative terms) drives.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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2013-11-16 13:20 [gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 21:29 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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