On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> 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?
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVM#Thin_provisioning
