From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF626138247 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B340E09EC; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com (mail-wg0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE903E095D for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id x12so4747659wgg.1 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:30:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vpEPLPSe+C+rSL9WdBkHheBdtH373OhAQVGxbCh7T/w=; b=Sv76+p6BcexPzuucKo20fsOFwyqf3OeSepuK2PPJJuWsjs+kP7zXr0Ls01i5E+K89g I2V6EkIy5TU4rI4qhWLlriYs5t4zQnC5oBv1sGf6dEYy/0k5RPFcpXPNhJ9m60ZeRyCV h10m1AFok2XkwfcOhw7CHl+PD7qnRFGk2c+0kZuuh/eDM484CWjjGktO/oSuYx1gLJFP Tph8TFLlZXdXDs7gQ3KQ5Ynht+pswUxOpd+eDt1AoHPGa8U9FOTpBDL8MREJzZoE+Wtf TtBfto1wLrmAxS9jM6EiS+uIHws9xH07EqOJ0tJGd2WXBjOcHDRJKfEJcvKi/Yjkthj+ f23Q== X-Received: by 10.194.121.133 with SMTP id lk5mr232982wjb.77.1384637426519; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-126-117.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gb1sm8506544wic.0.2013.11.16.13.30.25 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:30:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5287E3CA.2000809@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:29:46 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM References: <52877117.5030709@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <52877117.5030709@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8e71b9f4-f55e-4bcf-b928-d7f906dbdef3 X-Archives-Hash: 0801ed304c4e5f09b5826f1a7b01565e 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