Questions tagged [thin-provisioning]
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How do I expand a VMware Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed drive?
I have a drive that is VMWare Thick Provisioned with a format of Thick Provisioned Eager Zero.
I need to expand this drive by 10Gb, but unlike Thick Provisioned Lazy zero, I can't expand that drive while the machine is on, and unsure of what needs…

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LVM Thin pool performance with NVMe
I have 24 Samsung PM1733 7.68 TB and a server platform Gigabyte R282-Z94 with 2x 7702 64cores AMD EPYC. OS: Oracle Linux 8.6, 5.4.17-2136.311.6.el8uek.x86_64
I need this server for testing so I have to use a thin pool in my environment (i need…

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Can't `lvconvert` when root is readonly
My root is mounted readonly (on purpose). I have a separate, read-write vg where I want to lvconvert --merge a thin snapshot. I'm getting Cannot archive volume group metadata for $VG to read-only filesystem. The manpage was unhelpful. Is there some…
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Stratis filesystem will not mount after a reboot because the disk is full
It concerns a rhel8 server that has two disks (sda and sdb), and only on the sdb disk a Stratis filesystem has been created. After a restart of the server, no more mount point appears on the sdb disk. When I try to mount it I get the following…