-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/29/13 3:14 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi all, > > Thin-provisioned devices have the ability to set a 'soft > threshold', which is triggered if the real free space for this > device is beyond this mark. > > The intention behind this is to allow the system to induce some > garbage collection with possibly freeing up unused space. > > Initially it would be possible to execute garbage collection on > filesystems (eg for btrfs). > > However, as this concept applies to other areas within the kernel > (like dm-thinp or even btrfs itself) it might be an idea to have a > general mechanism / error handling etc in place. > > I would like to discuss at LSF the possible implementations and > handling mechanism for this kind of failure scenarios. I'd be really interested in discussion on this as well. I can see a bunch of different uses for this. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJREGz0AAoJEB57S2MheeWy7j8QAKzFRhdtXXMjU/x/S2HZ9TO6 BZCCPN9b5TmUKFWfnSxJ62AqcE0rHkUkTvKIHXdGXUgGP//YR2xkX82xDTtQCUCD iCj+Dq7MlEFblFLUOC/EjYN5dv4DmGlYxmDrkvVjZcBURbMzijtKik0GqEZ/SI5E XtilHxyoppdQDvR64g+Tlbwfmp9pyZjBY9in2JZVw7g5oWzrUw+IWZO9S06MUFUc ZZwdzauYi1y6rDlS9fT9PtbLpCOc0UuUFTvkc1zeKMhSZJSxcIuixMNvR1LnGpZB XxbpNLKr9O6+bb5/KycjKgbGLDWXXxYX2/5RZ3nNZCxP3FSgnY9lL+9zcgP2FY4D XcOeif0AJQQEmd2NSl9KjBWzk3LFgelNEz2rsYedSN6CZjOLTK2jpllQM5+h5X0q FPs3R1sh2OQ62P84JEFD821Teo3Aj3GlkMmIaUsMqaYQi/UZ4p4NVb9U7eExBA0Z EhV34hjLqs7PVHPajk84gWc291cgXaQj7NH9Ga/7oqBVVF3ouRGDbYKEX2riJMk7 p72sEzi/xT/uGU+lXUDoFr4JUZWTEaKjjbZbN2/UTk+G+MZiwi0Xy6i2YFby9UuH SuQET55bJHOjzwPbb5uW7WSbJQLmIxp072aA3cK27E7MT2G4RKuVnpj8MlboraDT uZQPxtndwpC58nWtHHdu =HI+u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
