On 6 June 2013 15:02, Morgan KORCHIA <morgan.korchia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As far as I know, thin provisioning is not available in ubuntu 12.04 since > it does not include LVM2. Hi, Fairly sure it does. $ lvchange --version LVM version: 2.02.66(2) (2010-05-20) Library version: 1.02.48 (2010-05-20) Driver version: 4.23.1 $ dpkg -l lvm2 ii lvm2 2.02.66-4ubunt The Linux Logical Volume Manager $ lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS But in answer to your question, RBD devices are created sparsely and only consume data when you write to them, if that is what you were thinking of using with OpenStack. Regards, Damien _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com