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author Marek Wodzinski2017-09-18 02:45:44 +0200
committer David Spencer2017-09-18 02:45:44 +0200
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system/thin-provisioning-tools: Added (manage LVM2 targets).
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
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+A suite of tools for manipulating the metadata of the dm-thin, dm-era
+and dm-cache device-mapper targets.
+
+Required by LVM2 to start and manage LVM volumes with above features.
+
+Package contains also patch for Slackware's mkinitrd.
+It's required if you want to boot from cached root partition.
+To apply the patch run:
+
+ cd /sbin ; patch -p0 < /usr/doc/thin-provisioning-tools-*/mkinitrd-1.4.X.patch
+
+where X is the version of the currently installed mkinitrd.