Hi Marcy,
LVM thin provisioning is pretty new, and it's only in the last year that
it's been introduced in various distros (as well as OpenStack). I would
guess there aren't a huge number of production rollouts right now. But
with that said, I know that we have some folks kicking the tires in test
environments.
We're also seeing it pop up in other open source projects, like Docker,
who uses it to replace their AuFS (unionFS) dependency:
https://www.docker.io/
http://blog.docker.io/2013/09/red-hat-and-docker-collaborate/
I think we'll see more of LVM thin provisioning as it gets further baked
in the enterprise world. Meanwhile, as others have mentioned, thin
provisioning at the storage level can accomplish many of the same
things. However, LVM is storage-agnostic, and is a great compliment to
LVM snapshots if you use those. I'd say check it out when you get a chance.
-Brad
Brad Hinson
Solution Architect, Red Hat
+1 (919) 360-0443
On 12/04/2013 06:22 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote:
This is now available as of SLES 11 SP3.
Has anyone played around with it? Wondering if this is a good solution to
those folks who ask for big old disk spaces (and pay) but never really use them
all ☺.
Marcy
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/
