[linux-lvm] exposing snapshot block device

Tomas Dalebjörk tomas.dalebjork at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 10:56:22 UTC 2019


Thanks,

Ok, looking at thin than.
Is there a way to adopt similarities using thin instead?

Regards Tomas

Den ons 23 okt. 2019 kl 12:26 skrev Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac at redhat.com>:

> Dne 22. 10. 19 v 18:13 Dalebjörk, Tomas napsal(a):
> > That is cool,
> >
> > But, are there any practical example how this could be working in
> reality.
> >
>
> There is not yet a practical example available from our lvm2 team yet.
>
> So we are only describing the 'model' & 'plan' we have ATM...
>
>
> >
> > I have created a way to perform block level incremental forever by
> reading the
> > -cow device, and thin_dump would be nice replacement for that.
>
>
> COW is dead technology from our perspective - it can't cope with recent
> performance of modern drives like NVMe...
>
> So our plan is to focus on thinp technology here.
>
>
> Zdenek
>
>
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