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On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:56:54 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three |
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> versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I |
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> noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have |
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> anything thin and I don't provision anything so why I ask? |
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> From what I've been able to understand, it's something to do |
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> with Device Mapper, snapshots and "many virtual devices to be stored on |
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> the same data volume". This is all just jibberish to me and I have no |
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> idea as to why this has suddenly appeared in my world update. I haven't |
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> asked for it. I don't use any of the "more advanced" thingies such as |
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> lvm2 etc so does anyone have any idea as to why I've now go this to |
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> install? |
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If you add -t to emerge @world you will probably see that it is lvm2 that |
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pulls this in, specifically the thin USE flag, which is on by default. |
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Add ":sys-fs/lvm2 -thin" to /etc/portage/package.use and it will go away. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Too many clicks spoil the browse. |
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