[dm-devel] Thin pool performance when allocating lots of blocks

2022-02-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
Are thin volumes (which start as snapshots of a blank volume) efficient for building virtual machine images? Given the nature of this workload (writing to lots of new, possibly-small files, then copying data from them to a huge disk image), I expect that this will cause sharing to be broken many,

Re: [dm-devel] Thin pool performance when allocating lots of blocks

2022-02-09 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 2/8/22 15:37, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Dne 08. 02. 22 v 20:00 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a): >> Are thin volumes (which start as snapshots of a blank volume) efficient >> for building virtual machine images? Given the nature of this workload >> (writing to lots of new, possibly-small files, then

Re: [dm-devel] Thin pool performance when allocating lots of blocks

2022-02-08 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 08. 02. 22 v 22:02 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a): On 2/8/22 15:37, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: Dne 08. 02. 22 v 20:00 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a): Are thin volumes (which start as snapshots of a blank volume) efficient for building virtual machine images? Given the nature of this workload

Re: [dm-devel] Thin pool performance when allocating lots of blocks

2022-02-08 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 08. 02. 22 v 20:00 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a): Are thin volumes (which start as snapshots of a blank volume) efficient for building virtual machine images? Given the nature of this workload (writing to lots of new, possibly-small files, then copying data from them to a huge disk image), I