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Description of problem: When thin LV are in use, the script /etc/lvm/lvm.conf invokes /usr/sbin/thin_check (in the package device-mapper-persistent-data) which is not pulled in by the rpm/yum dependency mechanism. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

lvm2-2.02.95-10.el6_3.2.x86_64
device-mapper-persistent-data-0.1.4-1.el6.x86_64


How reproducible: Totally


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create thin volume (without installing device-mapper-persisten-data)
2. Reboot
3. Failure to setup thin volumes at boot time (due to missing thin_check)
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

In 6.3, the feature is classed as a Technology Preview https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/ and so we did not want to install this package for everyone by default.

You should also note that if the machine loses power while writing to a thin device, a subsequent thin_check might sometimes fail, and if it does you then need to run the repair manually to tidy up some reference counts after incomplete I/O.  See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48851 for details.  We shall automate the handling of this particular situation in future.

Thanks for the heads up!

The dependency is already present in builds for 6.4.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 870248 ***