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| author | Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-01-24 14:24:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-01-24 14:24:10 +0000 |
| commit | cf660698699505d1d4b61d227c8e3f07ee853e48 (patch) | |
| tree | 77873a49886b0cdf2ad72508059d69f824bfe78b /sbin/geom | |
| parent | 6ee6ac7fec9baa637ec358587fdaa83890598b2b (diff) | |
| download | src-cf660698699505d1d4b61d227c8e3f07ee853e48.tar.gz src-cf660698699505d1d4b61d227c8e3f07ee853e48.zip | |
Added a blurb about thin provisioning, fixed some formatting.
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| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/geom/class/virstor/gvirstor.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/virstor/gvirstor.8 b/sbin/geom/class/virstor/gvirstor.8 index ebb743163487..cd7cb2f5fdc0 100644 --- a/sbin/geom/class/virstor/gvirstor.8 +++ b/sbin/geom/class/virstor/gvirstor.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org> .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 17, 2008 +.Dd January 24, 2011 .Dt GVIRSTOR 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ The idea behind is similar to the concept of Virtual Memory in operating systems, effectively allowing users to overcommit on storage .Pq free file system space . +The concept is also known as "thin provisioning" in virtualization +environments, only here it is implemented on the level of physical storage +devices. +.Pp The first argument to .Nm indicates an action to be performed: |