[PVE-User] Understanding lvm-thin

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Fri Jun 10 11:55:34 CEST 2016


> >>LVM does not support efficient snapshots, so I want to get rid of that as
> >>fast
> >>as possible...
> 
> Do you have benchmark between lvm-thin vs plain .raw file ?
> 
> If user don't need snapshot but maximum performance ?

First, I do not have benchmarks.

But I doubt that someone wants to use the OS system partition for such setup.
Instead,
he would use an extra disk for that?

Besides, it is really easy to remove the lvm-thin volume and replace it with a
normal LVM if somebody really need it.




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