Phillip Susi wrote: > On 9/28/2010 4:49 PM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: >> These are 2 new device mapper targets "thinp" and "thinp-dev" >> implemented in one module, which allow for thin provisioning of storage >> on a single host from a storage pool to an arbitrary amount of devices. > > How is this different than snapshotting a zero target? > Main difference is that you actually can free up space. You can't with snapshotting as then a rollback becomes impossible. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
