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| author | Mike Snitzer | 2018-07-23 15:46:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Mike Snitzer | 2018-07-27 21:24:03 +0200 |
| commit | 6c7413c0f5ab61d2339cf516d25bb44d71f4bad4 (patch) | |
| tree | a70ab4f3ca59cc46962d4ae9b6a9ca47bed3038b /Documentation/device-mapper | |
| parent | Linux 4.18-rc6 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt index 3d01948ea061..b8a57b9cec19 100644 --- 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 ======== |