On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:29 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box > > at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that > > needed it was thin- provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE > > flags and recompiled lvm2 I could get rid of ruby altogether. > > > > This won't suit everybody, I know, but maybe it's worth considering. > > What exactly does this do -- is it for a thin client or something?
No, it's an LVM feature. It's one of those "if you don't know what it is you don't need it" type features so I don't understand whey it is enabled by default in the ebuild. Thin volumes in LVM use only the space they need, so the space you allocate to them, so you can create volumes with a total size greater than the available disk space. -- Neil Bothwick The people who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed.
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