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XFS: the filesystem of the future?XFS: the filesystem of the future?Posted Feb 7, 2012 3:22 UTC (Tue) by dgc (subscriber, #6611)In reply to: XFS: the filesystem of the future? by ArbitraryConstant Parent article: XFS: the filesystem of the future?
> hm... It doesn't seem consistent to talk about how xfs is well
> suited to inexpensive servers, but then require features not > available from inexpensive servers for important functionality.
Thin provisioning is available to any linux system via the Device Mapper module dm-thinp. You don't need storage hardware that supports this functionality any more - all recent kernels support it.
Dave.
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XFS: the filesystem of the future? Posted Feb 7, 2012 3:40 UTC (Tue) by ArbitraryConstant (guest, #42725) [Link]
Interesting - that's a very useful feature! Thanks
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