SFS does, sort of. The total number of blocks assigned to SFS users can exceed the DASD allocated to the pool. David Kreuter
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: LVM thin provisioning From: Doug <[email protected]> Date: Thu, December 05, 2013 12:06 pm To: [email protected] That would be an interesting addition to SFS.... ?? Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:44, Offer Baruch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi , > > I dont think there is any point in thin provisoning dasd... > If you think about it the first thing you do to a dasd is dasdfmt... > meaning dasd space will be all used up the minute you format the volume. > > There could be a nice feature for edevices... but most storage array aleady > give you thin provisioning in the open world... > > Offer >> On Dec 5, 2013 6:23 PM, "Tobias Doerkes" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Marcy, >> >> this is a very interessting feature and i will check it out. But what i am >> really looking for is some kind of thin provisioning at the z/VM level. All >> other virtualisation products on the other platforms provide this feature. >> But on z/VM there is no way to overcommit DASD storage. >> >> Tobias. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
