IMHO thin-provisioning is an optional volumes type in LVM2 and is not required for operating LVM. The fact that lvconvert works to convert things to/from optionally supported types, is imho ok. In the same way we ship many tools that can convert formats but not necessarily open those for modification. E.g. i can use qemu-img to convert disk images to e.g. VMWare format but I might not have any hypervisor that knows how to boot such an image and allow to modify it (e.g. upgrade packages).
>From usability point of view, it might help if attempts to activate thin volumes should result in messaging like "maybe install packages foo bar?" Similar to how command-not-found operates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1657646 Title: Missing thin-provisioning-tools prevents VG with thin pool LV from being (de)activated, but not its creation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lvm2/+bug/1657646/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
