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Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
authorJoe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:24:39 +0000 (10:24 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:24:39 +0000 (10:24 +1000)
commitb5749facce56e4b28b7b92c64e53dc120974d52c
tree274a98260a2abf2df358680bac41976bcccdc1cc
parentf1d2e36188cf235420f5ff9736548ffc1aca4692
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]