Bug#690693: ITP: thin-provisioning-tools -- Tools to manage thinly provisioned volume metadata in LVM
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Neil Wilson <neil@aldur.co.uk> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Neil Wilson <neil@aldur.co.uk>
>
> * Package name : thin-provisioning-tools
> Version : 0.1.5
> Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc.
> * URL : https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
> * License : GPL v3
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : Tools to manage thinly provisioned volume metadata in LVM
>
> Installs check, dump and restore tools that manage the thin volume
> metadata in the thin provisioning pool.
The message description is too terse to be useful for an average user.
What is "thinly provisioned volume metadata"? Does it have anything to
do with thin clients? Why would I or some system administrator want to
install the package?
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regards,
Reinhard
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