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Yes but that's well-known and documented. Including it in Anaconda looks like an oversight though (a thinp deployment needs to be well-planned and you'd definit
by lima 9y ago
Yes but that's well-known and documented. Including it in Anaconda looks like an oversight though (a thinp deployment needs to be well-planned and you'd definitely want to read the docs).
There's a whole book-sized section about in the storage docs.
The docker-storage-setup utility, for example, sets it up correctly and enables automatic extension.
- bubblethink 9y agoNo, the use in Anaconda is perfectly legitimate. Docker aside, I use it for automatic snapshots. That's a fairly useful and unique feature that you can't have in any other legit way (not counting zfs, and btrfs is deprecated). There is also the yum-snapshot plugin that relies on it. It's not even that complicated. Just throw a few gigs at metadata and forget about extensions. If I have 2TB hard drives, I don't care if you use 16 G for metadata, which is the max.
- lima 9y agoLVM snapshots are really slow though.
- bubblethink 9y agoThat's the whole selling point of thinp (at least for root and home). They are supposed to be faster than regular snapshots.