Re: [dm-devel] Is thin provisioning still experimental?

2018-08-07 Thread Mike Snitzer
[Please don't top-post.. it really compromises the ability to provide proper context for inlined replies, etc] On Fri, Aug 03 2018 at 11:13pm -0400, Drew Hastings wrote: >Thank you for that insight, I appreciate it. >Can you elaborate on your concern related to running out of space? > >

Re: [dm-devel] Is thin provisioning still experimental?

2018-08-04 Thread Drew Hastings
Thank you for that insight, I appreciate it. Can you elaborate on your concern related to running out of space? Assuming the metadata device always has space, is it unsafe to let the the data device for the thin pool run out of space if queue_if_no_space is set? Would it not be safe on the block

Re: [dm-devel] Is thin provisioning still experimental?

2018-07-23 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Jul 23 2018 at 10:00am -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23 2018 at 1:06am -0400, > Drew Hastings wrote: > > >I love all of the work you guys do @dm-devel . Thanks for taking the time > >to read this. > >I would like to use thin provisioning targets in production,

Re: [dm-devel] Is thin provisioning still experimental?

2018-07-23 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Jul 23 2018 at 1:06am -0400, Drew Hastings wrote: >I love all of the work you guys do @dm-devel . Thanks for taking the time >to read this. >I would like to use thin provisioning targets in production, but it's hard >to ignore the warning in the documentation. It seems

[dm-devel] Is thin provisioning still experimental?

2018-07-23 Thread Drew Hastings
I love all of the work you guys do @dm-devel . Thanks for taking the time to read this. I would like to use thin provisioning targets in production, but it's hard to ignore the warning in the documentation. It seems like, with an understanding of how thin provisioning works, it should be safe to