From 2afe468c96cbea8bf3ae19a71c8ba30adf17d6b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Maurer Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:13:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cleanup: limit character per line, fix Thin provisioning section level --- pvesm.adoc | 27 +++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/pvesm.adoc b/pvesm.adoc index 8bf043e..bbdec47 100644 --- a/pvesm.adoc +++ b/pvesm.adoc @@ -84,21 +84,24 @@ TIP: It is possible to use LVM on top of an iSCSI storage. That way you get a 'shared' LVM storage. Thin provisioning ------------------ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -A number of storages, and the Qemu image format `qcow2`, support _thin provisioning_. -With thin provisioning activated, only the blocks that the guest system actually use will be -written to the storage. +A number of storages, and the Qemu image format `qcow2`, support _thin +provisioning_. With thin provisioning activated, only the blocks that +the guest system actually use will be written to the storage. -Say for instance you create a VM with a 32GB hard disk, and after installing the -guest system OS, the root filesystem of the VM contains 3 GB of data. -In that case only 3GB are written to the storage, even if the guest VM sees a -32GB hard drive. In this way thin provisioning allows you to create disk images -which are larger than the currently available storage blocks. You can create -large disk images for your VMs, and when the need arises, add more disks to your -storage without resizing the VMs filesystems. +Say for instance you create a VM with a 32GB hard disk, and after +installing the guest system OS, the root filesystem of the VM contains +3 GB of data. In that case only 3GB are written to the storage, even +if the guest VM sees a 32GB hard drive. In this way thin provisioning +allows you to create disk images which are larger than the currently +available storage blocks. You can create large disk images for your +VMs, and when the need arises, add more disks to your storage without +resizing the VMs filesystems. + +All storage types which have the 'Snapshots' feature also support thin +provisioning. -All storage types which have the 'Snapshots' feature also support thin provisioning. Storage Configuration --------------------- -- 2.39.2