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2007 Sep 14
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space allocation vs. thin provisioning
...write across the volume when they do an
allocation and that would negate the value of thin provisioning."
In another entry[3] he goes on to say: "Capacity is allocated to
''thin'' volumes from this pool in units of 42 MB pages...."
2. http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/05/dynamic_or_thin_provisioning.html
3. http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/05/thin_and_wide_.html
This says that any time that a 42 MB region gets one sector
written, 42 MB of storage is permanently[4] allocated to the
virtual LUN.
4. Until the LUN is destroyed, that is.
I know that ZFS does not do a write across all of the disk as...