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authorMike Snitzer2018-07-23 15:46:45 +0200
committerMike Snitzer2018-07-27 21:24:03 +0200
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dm thin: update stale "Status" Documentation
Documentation/device-mapper-/thin-provisioning.txt's "Status" section no longer reflected the current fitness level of DM thin-provisioning. That is, DM thinp is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL". It has since seen considerable improvement, has been fairly widely deployed and has performed in a robust manner. Update Documentation to dispel concern raised by potential DM thinp users. Reported-by: Drew Hastings <dhastings@crucialwebhost.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
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--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
@@ -28,17 +28,18 @@ administrator some freedom, for example to:
Status
======
-These targets are very much still in the EXPERIMENTAL state. Please
-do not yet rely on them in production. But do experiment and offer us
-feedback. Different use cases will have different performance
-characteristics, for example due to fragmentation of the data volume.
+These targets are considered safe for production use. But different use
+cases will have different performance characteristics, for example due
+to fragmentation of the data volume.
If you find this software is not performing as expected please mail
dm-devel@redhat.com with details and we'll try our best to improve
things for you.
-Userspace tools for checking and repairing the metadata are under
-development.
+Userspace tools for checking and repairing the metadata have been fully
+developed and are available as 'thin_check' and 'thin_repair'. The name
+of the package that provides these utilities varies by distribution (on
+a Red Hat distribution it is named 'device-mapper-persistent-data').
Cookbook
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