From 8d62eb686e535693f7f325b0daaf6d85012ab86f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marek Wodzinski Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:45:44 +0100 Subject: system/thin-provisioning-tools: Added (manage LVM2 targets). Signed-off-by: David Spencer --- system/thin-provisioning-tools/README | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 system/thin-provisioning-tools/README (limited to 'system/thin-provisioning-tools/README') diff --git a/system/thin-provisioning-tools/README b/system/thin-provisioning-tools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..37d6d0e822 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/thin-provisioning-tools/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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. -- cgit v1.2.3