Re: [Xen-API] [xs-devel] lvmthin

2015-01-12 Thread Tobias Kreidl
Thanks much, Dave and Pasi, for your feedback. It certainly makes sense to proceed in that order, viz. dealing with thin provisioning of VHD before pursuing a pool-wide lvmthin implementation. Thanks very much for taking this into consideration! -=Tobias On 1/12/2015 2:57 AM, Dave Scott wro

Re: [Xen-API] [xs-devel] Backup solutions for XenServer

2015-01-12 Thread Tobias Kreidl
As of around CentOS 6.5 (and for sure in RHEL 6.4) that there is a thinlvm utility that seems to take care of supporting thinly-provisioned LVM volumes. There is an associated snapshot design based on LVM thin provisioning that even supports the ability to do snapshots of snapshots, etc. down t

Re: [Xen-API] [xs-devel] lvmthin

2015-01-12 Thread Tobias Kreidl
So sorry, I meant of course to write that the utility is *lvmthin* (_not_ thinlvm). On 1/9/2015 3:54 PM, Tobias Kreidl wrote: As of around CentOS 6.5 (and for sure in RHEL 6.4) that there is a thinlvm *lvmthin* utility that seems to take care of supporting thinly-provisioned LVM volumes. There

Re: [Xen-API] [xs-devel] lvmthin

2015-01-12 Thread Dave Scott
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 09:29, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 03:59:26PM -0700, Tobias Kreidl wrote: >> So sorry, I meant of course to write that the utility is lvmthin (not >> thinlvm). >> > > Hello, > > I *think* the lvmthin stuff is currently designed for single-host s

Re: [Xen-API] [xs-devel] lvmthin

2015-01-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 03:59:26PM -0700, Tobias Kreidl wrote: >So sorry, I meant of course to write that the utility is lvmthin (not >thinlvm). > Hello, I *think* the lvmthin stuff is currently designed for single-host systems, where the storage is used by a single dedicated host only. T