[dm-devel] [PATCH] thin_dump: added --device-id, --skip-mappings, and new output --format's

[Joe Thornber]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:59:15AM +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote:
> On 15 March 2016 at 01:45, Eric Wheeler <dm-devel at lists.ewheeler.net> 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.