Right,  so LVMThin(1) conveniently omits "Oh BTW standard functionality like 
pvmove() is not implemented."

lvmthin is a sub-set or sub-class of LVM, therefore any reasonable person would 
assume all functionality cascades down. Because it pretty much does for 
everything else.

> lvm2 has 'no idea'  which disk space is in-use for any individual thin LV.
> (there are tools like 'thin_ls/thin_rmap' for that)

And any reasonable person would assume lvmthin would have implemented the 
necessary hooks so that pvmove() would work by lvmthin handing lvm back a 
linked-list of all of the pieces in the correct order so they could be written 
to lvm(thick) or to another lvmthin pool. This is not that big of a cognitive 
leap.

That Linux LVM thin is missing "obvious" functionality is fine, it just needs 
to be stated very clearly.

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