Thinly provisioned (compressed) metadata volumes is unsupported according to 
IBM. See the GPFS FAQ here, question 4.12:

"Placing GPFS metadata on an NSD backed by a thinly provisioned volume is 
dangerous and unsupported."

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html

Bob Oesterlin
Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance HPC Grid
507-269-0413


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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] SSD LUN setup

I have read about other products doing RAID1 with deduplication and compression 
to take less than the 50% capacity hit.
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