[geeks] recipe for Linux / iSCSI / thin provisioned space

[der Mouse]

> I have successfully provisioned a small iSCSI target that is "thick"
> (takes up 1GB disk space when provisioned as 1GB of space), but
> obviously this is not terribly useful.

Obviously?  I must be missing something; that's exactly how I'd expect
it to work.  How would it occupy any less space?  Compression comes to
mind, but that would be an odd usage of the thick-vs-thin terminology.

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