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Commit 6c7413c0 authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer
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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: default avatarDrew Hastings <dhastings@crucialwebhost.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
parent d72e90f3

Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt

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Status

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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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