Dear Erwin,
Erwin van Londen wrote (ao):
Another thing is that some arrays have the capability to
thin-provision volumes. In the back-end on the physical layer the
array configures, let say, a 1 TB volume and virtually provisions 5TB
to the host. On writes it dynamically allocates more pages
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:43 +0100, Ric Wheeler wrote:
New firmware/microcode versions are able to reclaim that space if it
sees a certain number of consecutive zero's and will reclaim that
space to the volume pool. Are there any thoughts on writing a
low-priority tread that zeros out
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:34 -0700, Erwin van Londen wrote:
Dear all,
While going through the archived mailing list and crawling along the
wiki I didn't find any clues if there would be any optimizations in
Btrfs to make efficient use of functions and features that today exist
on enterprise
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:58:00PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:43 +0100, Ric Wheeler wrote:
New firmware/microcode versions are able to reclaim that space if it
sees a certain number of consecutive zero's and will reclaim that
space to the volume pool. Are
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 06:27 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:58:00PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:43 +0100, Ric Wheeler wrote:
New firmware/microcode versions are able to reclaim that space if it
sees a certain number of consecutive
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 07:43 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
Erwin van Londen wrote:
Another thing is that some arrays have the capability to thin-provision
volumes. In the back-end on the physical layer the array configures, let
say, a 1 TB volume and virtually provisions 5TB to the host. On
Dear all,
While going through the archived mailing list and crawling along the wiki I
didn't find any clues if there would be any optimizations in Btrfs to make
efficient use of functions and features that today exist on enterprise class
storage arrays.
One exception to that was the ssd
