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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
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