OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning

Summary

LVM has introduced thin provisioning technology, which provides greatly improved snapshot functionality in addition to thin provisioning capability. This change will make it possible to configure thin provisioning during OS installation.

Owner

Name: David Lehman
Email: dlehman@fedoraproject.org
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 20
Last updated: 2013-07-16
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Thin Provisioning support in the installer will include a new automatic partitioning variant as well as support for thin volumes during custom storage configuration.

Benefit to Fedora

This will help to enable users to make use of the proposed system rollback change.

Scope

Proposal owners: implement thin provisioning functionality in the installer

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)