On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:59:15AM +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote: > On 15 March 2016 at 01:45, Eric Wheeler <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > Please review the patch below when you have a moment. I am interested in > > your feedback, and also interested in having this functionality merged > > upstream. This was written against thin-provisioning-tools.git tag > > v0.5.6. > > > > We use thin_dump on live dm-thin metadata snapshots all the time. In our > > case, we want to dump the XML for new (snapshot) volumes instead of > > dumping the entire 16gb metadata device (37.8% used) which takes ~20-30 > > minutes instead of ~5 seconds for a single volume with --device-id. > > I'm interested in extracting the mappings of a particular device, too. > In fact, I've implemented this (along with extracting the mappings in > binary format) and have only recently opened a PR: > https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools/pull/49. It seems > that we've replicated some work here, I'm not sure whether we're > supposed to send patches to this list or open PR on github. I've not forgotten you patches, just haven't got round to them yet. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
