A mapping layer for filesystems

Posted May 12, 2018 17:41 UTC (Sat) by fyrchik (guest, #124371)
In reply to: A mapping layer for filesystems by Cyberax
Parent article: A mapping layer for filesystems

Thin provisioning is useful in combo with deduplication: you can have 10TB of available space backed by only 5TB of storage (which looks reasonable for hundreds of similar VMs).