From 6c7413c0f5ab61d2339cf516d25bb44d71f4bad4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Snitzer Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:46:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] dm thin: update stale "Status" Documentation Documentation/device-mapper-/thin-provisioning.txt's "Status" section no longer reflected the current fitness level of DM thin-provisioning. That is, DM thinp is no longer "EXPERIMENTAL". It has since seen considerable improvement, has been fairly widely deployed and has performed in a robust manner. Update Documentation to dispel concern raised by potential DM thinp users. Reported-by: Drew Hastings Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer --- Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt index 3d01948ea061..b8a57b9cec19 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt @@ -28,17 +28,18 @@ administrator some freedom, for example to: Status ====== -These targets are very much still in the EXPERIMENTAL state. Please -do not yet rely on them in production. But do experiment and offer us -feedback. Different use cases will have different performance -characteristics, for example due to fragmentation of the data volume. +These targets are considered safe for production use. But different use +cases will have different performance characteristics, for example due +to fragmentation of the data volume. If you find this software is not performing as expected please mail dm-devel@redhat.com with details and we'll try our best to improve things for you. -Userspace tools for checking and repairing the metadata are under -development. +Userspace tools for checking and repairing the metadata have been fully +developed and are available as 'thin_check' and 'thin_repair'. The name +of the package that provides these utilities varies by distribution (on +a Red Hat distribution it is named 'device-mapper-persistent-data'). Cookbook ======== -- 2.45.2