I know that lvm supports thin provisioning, and I think I have a pretty good grasp on how that works. Does libvirt support lvm thin provisioning and thin snapshots? I know that in order to set up lvm thin provisioning by hand, I have to create a thin-provisioning pool within the volume group, and then thin-provisioned logical volumes and thin-provisioned snapshots can be created within that thin-provision pool. I also know that it's possible to have more than one thin-provisioning pool within the same volume group, which tells me that in order to properly set up any lvm-aware application to use thin-provisioning, I may need to inform it which thin-provisioning pool it should base LVs and snapshots from. When I look at the example here: http://libvirt.org/storage.html#StorageBackendLogical I don't see anything particular which tells me it supports building off a thin-provisioning pool if I specify such by name. Checking here: http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html#StoragePool I again don't see anything specific about logical thick vs thin provisioning. I would expect to see *something*, as there are performance consequences when making such choices, so I'm again not sure libvirt recognizes a difference. So is this something that libvirt can do? And is there good documentation somewhere on the subject?
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