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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. |