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| author | Marek Wodzinski <majek@mamy.to> | 2017-09-18 01:45:44 +0100 |
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| committer | David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org> | 2017-09-18 01:45:44 +0100 |
| commit | 8d62eb686e535693f7f325b0daaf6d85012ab86f (patch) | |
| tree | 53bff31e8b90f0d15a3fe75e6ae3c3712f92318c /system/thin-provisioning-tools/README | |
| parent | b7bb8d0fe3b605b68c558f1bb186d1dbe19161e8 (diff) | |
system/thin-provisioning-tools: Added (manage LVM2 targets).
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/thin-provisioning-tools/README b/system/thin-provisioning-tools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..37d6d0e822f8a --- /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. |