Re: Does your application depend on, or report, free disk space? Re: F20 Self Contained Change: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

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On Jul 31, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> i.e. if you only want the efficient snapshots, a way to fully-provision
> a "thinp" device.  I'm still not sure if this is possible…?

[…]

> 
> I guess I'm pretty nervous about offering actual thin provisioned
> storage to "average" Fedora users.  I'm having nightmares about the "bug"
> reports already, just based on the likelihood of most users misunderstanding
> the  feature and it's requirements & expected behavior…

So possibly the installer should be conservative about how thin the provisioning is; otherwise I'm imagining inadequately provisioned thinp LV, while also using the rollback feature [1].


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rollback


Chris Murphy
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