Comment 20 for bug 1657646
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| Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote Re: Missing thin-provisioning-tools prevents VG with thin pool LV from being (de)activated, but not its creation | #20 |
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.