Dne 27.1.2013 11:01, devicemapper niko napsal(a):
Hi,everyone
if we dd between thin provisioned devices,
can we just get allocated blocks copied ?
Nope - devices mapper target operates on block level - not on the filesystem
level - so it has no knowledge about file layout.
What I could eventually imagine is some kind of block compactification (just
like kernel does for hugepages) - but it's currently not being developed....
Will the output thin device get fully provisioned?
I glanced through the dm-thin code,
it turns out unmapped blocks return zeroed,am i right?
depends on settings - you could have either zeroed block or block
with content left on the disk - i.e. running thin with 1MB block/chunk size
means - before the first use whole 1MB must be zeroed - so it has its price.
Is there a trick to tell upper applications that all u got are zeroes.
or should they scan zeroed blocks themselves to trigger WRITE_SAME to reduce
I/O load?
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
see flag: skip_block_zeroing
Eventually for lvm2 lvcreate --zero y|n for thin pool creation.
Zdenek
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