Bug#857142: lvm2: cache-pool un-checkable after crash because cache_check is not present

[Benjamin Cama]

Hi,

Le mercredi 08 mars 2017 à 16:57 +0100, Benjamin Cama a écrit :
> Le mercredi 08 mars 2017 à 16:26 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit :
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:02:08PM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> > > Could you try to include this tool in Debian, or at least give a big
> > > warning that cache-pools are dangerous without it? Thanks.
> > 
> > | Package: lvm2
> > | Version: 2.02.168-1
> > | Suggests: thin-provisioning-tools
> > 
> > | Package: thin-provisioning-tools
> > | Version: 0.6.1-4
> > 
> > We have everything available.
> 
> Ooops, didn't see that… Sorry for the noise about that. Still, even if
> it is suggested, it didn't get installed here. It's a quite fresh Jessie
> install from two monthes ago, with lvm disk layout chosen from d-i, what
> could have made it skipped?

OK, I just mixed “suggests” with “recommends” in my head again, and of
course it wasn't installed as suggests are not by default. Maybe
thin-provisioning-tools should be a recommends, if cached volumes are
really a supported feature of Debian?

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