Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Merge

2016-05-18 Thread Tom Jay
Hello, This question was in fact answered by the debian-kernel mailing list, who informed me that the documentation was probably wrong. The kernel does actually support merging volumes, just the 'dmsetup targets' output only refers to output from modules that are already loaded, not what is sup

Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Merge

2016-05-18 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On 18.5.2016 10:13, Tom Jay wrote: Hello, This question was in fact answered by the debian-kernel mailing list, who informed me that the documentation was probably wrong. The kernel does actually support merging volumes, just the 'dmsetup targets' output only refers to output from modules that ar

Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Merge

2016-05-16 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On 16.5.2016 13:14, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 04:35:44AM +, Tom Jay wrote: I've posted a question to the debian-user mailing list, but am yet to receive a response. I am running Debian 7.9 64-bit with kernel version 3.2.0 and would like to use the 'lvconvert --merge'

Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Merge

2016-05-16 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 04:35:44AM +, Tom Jay wrote: > I've posted a question to the debian-user mailing list, but am yet to receive > a response. > I am running Debian 7.9 64-bit with kernel version 3.2.0 and would like to > use the 'lvconvert --merge' feature, but do not have 'snapshot-merg

[linux-lvm] LVM Merge

2016-05-16 Thread Tom Jay
Hello, I've posted a question to the debian-user mailing list, but am yet to receive a response. I am running Debian 7.9 64-bit with kernel version 3.2.0 and would like to use the 'lvconvert --merge' feature, but do not have 'snapshot-merge' support in the kernel. Does anyone have any idea how