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Added a blurb about thin provisioning, fixed some formatting.

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Ivan Voras 2011-01-24 14:24:10 +00:00
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.\" 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
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 17, 2008
.Dd January 24, 2011
.Dt GVIRSTOR 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
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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: