On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 08:29 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > 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. > Yes, that's right. Heinz > Cheers, > > Hannes -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
