Description of problem: For testing purposed it might be occasionally useful to play with LVs that have 'zero' or 'error' segtype. Possible usecases: lvcreate -L1000G --type zero -n lvname vgname lvconvert --thinpool vgname/lvname or lvconvert --thin vgname/lvname lvconvert --cachepool vgname/lvname Allows to quickly create a thin volume with any size - that has *NO REAL* space used for backend - so clearly not usable to story *ANY REAL* data - but allow to check various performance characteristics of thin or cache targets.
Mostly implemented upstream within version 2.03.22.