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Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
authorJoe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:13:35 +0000 (09:13 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:17:57 +0000 (09:17 +1000)
commit6c3841f7732c3b991d79b5350ae01c7c391e1c80
treebc7415ac66ae91c53167bb79e2401a32e750ab8a
parentc9ae390255b13ee983addc9570eedb4b668e1ead
Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
with snapshot support.  The 'thin' target is used to create instances of
the virtual devices that are hosted in the 'thin-pool' target.  The
thin-pool target provides data sharing among devices.  This sharing is
made possible using the persistent-data library in the previous patch.

The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to
be stored on the same data volume, simplifying administration and
allowing sharing of data between volumes (thus reducing disk usage).

Another big feature is support for arbitrary depth of recursive
snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...).  The previous
implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables,
and so performance was O(depth).  This new implementation uses a single
data structure so we don't get this degradation with depth.

For further information and examples of how to use this, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/md/Kconfig
drivers/md/Makefile
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/md/dm-thin.c [new file with mode: 0644]