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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:30:42
Message-Id: 5287E3CA.2000809@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Thin provisioning with LVM by Tanstaafl
1 On 16/11/2013 15:20, Tanstaafl wrote:
2 > Just wanted to start a new thread about this...
3 >
4 > Would appreciate any responses from anyone using this...
5 >
6 > Why did you choose it?
7 >
8 > What has your experience been?
9 >
10 > Any problems? If so, how did you overcome them?
11 >
12 > If you had to do it all over again, would you still use it? If so, would
13 > you do anything differently?
14 >
15 > It appears that the best use scenario may be for cloud hosting providers
16 > like Linode - and they of course would also benefit greatly from the new
17 > systemd init system (which was funded/designed by RedHat primarily for
18 > this specific use case).
19 >
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22 Do you need to overcommit storage? On this question, if you need it then
23 you are already very aware that you need it as you will have way too
24 many customers and way too few disk drives.
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26 For all other general cases you do not need it, you just buy more (cheap
27 in relative terms) drives.
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29 --
30 Alan McKinnon
31 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com