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The Bridge: Veritas Thin (Provisioning) API

January 6, 2011 By Stephen 1 Comment

Thin provisioning needs communication to function, and zero page reclaim is only the array side of the story. WRITE_SAME helps reduce I/O load, but the server needs to use it. Wouldn't it be nice if the operating system, file system, or volume manager would use these commands to help recover capacity? We need a bridge. We need to cross the gulf between the storage array … [Read more...] about The Bridge: Veritas Thin (Provisioning) API

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