On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:33:41PM -0400, Scott Moser wrote: > When I create an lvmthinpool with size S and poolmetadatasize P, > it reduces the available freespace by S+2P. I expected that to > be S+P. Where did the extra poolmetadatasize get used? So that you have sufficient disk space to store a second copy of it if you need to perform any work on the metadata in future. Recovery operations, for example, create a recovered copy in that 'spare' space then swap to use it leaving the space used by the original metadata as the new 'spare'. Alasdair _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/