On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 04:35:44AM +0000, Tom Jay wrote: > I've posted a question to the debian-user mailing list, but am yet to receive a response. > I am running Debian 7.9 64-bit with kernel version 3.2.0 and would like to use the 'lvconvert --merge' feature, but do not have 'snapshot-merge' support in the kernel. Does anyone have any idea how to enable this? > The original post is here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/05/msg00496.html. So you don't have any snapshot support in your running kernel. But your kernel is modular, and if you attempt a snapshot operation, lvm2 will try to load the snapshot module if it is available. To try this manually, do 'modprobe dm-snapshot' (see 'man modprobe') then retry 'dmsetup targets'. Alasdair _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
