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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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> > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? |
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> > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only |
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> > patronising garbage, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning on |
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> > Linux" - well, duh! Who write's this stuff? |
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> > So, WTF is thin provisioning? |
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> I'm tempted to ask whether google is down or something, but I'm tired and |
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> waiting for 7z to finish so here you go anyway: |
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For me, google is permanently down. |
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_provisioning |
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Yes, I've read it, thanks. My question above was somewhat rhetorical. |
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> I would say you probably don't need to care about it. |
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I do. I need to spend time and effort removing it. It sounds like |
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something only useful in servers, yet I have a desktop profile installed. |
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There's something not quite right, here. |
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> HTH |
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> Marc Joliet |
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> "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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> don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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