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* [linux-lvm] thin-provisioning-tools not part of lvm?
@ 2013-05-17 14:27 Phillip Susi
  2013-05-17 14:49 ` Joe Thornber
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Susi @ 2013-05-17 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-lvm

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Why are helper programs required for lvm to use thin provisioning
volumes not part of the lvm source package?

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* Re: [linux-lvm] thin-provisioning-tools not part of lvm?
  2013-05-17 14:27 [linux-lvm] thin-provisioning-tools not part of lvm? Phillip Susi
@ 2013-05-17 14:49 ` Joe Thornber
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joe Thornber @ 2013-05-17 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LVM general discussion and development

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:27:19AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> Why are helper programs required for lvm to use thin provisioning
> volumes not part of the lvm source package?

a) Because the whole point of device-mapper is it doesn't tie you in to a
single volume manager.  Unfortunately EVMS doesn't seem to be
developed any more, so LVM2 has become the defacto choice.

b) Because the LVM2 codebase is too big and riddled with closely
coupled code that means making any changes takes forever.

- Joe

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