doc/lvol: add inflate doc

Change-Id: I21139603dce30a242e49b2fcc8c4152613369f44
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kulasek <tomaszx.kulasek@intel.com>
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@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ The write operation is performed as shown in the diagram below:
User may also create clone of existing snapshot that will be thin provisioned and it will behave in the same way as logical volume from which snapshot is created.
There is no limit of clones and snapshots that may be created as long as there is enough space on logical volume store. Snapshots are read only. Clones may be created only from snapshots.
## Inflation {#lvol_inflation}
Blobs can be inflated to copy data from backing devices (e.g. snapshots) and allocate all remaining clusters. As a result of this operation all dependencies for the blob are removed.
![Removing backing blob and bdevs relations using inflate call](lvol_inflate_clone_snapshot.svg)
# Configuring Logical Volumes
There is no static configuration available for logical volumes. All configuration is done trough RPC. Information about logical volumes is kept on block devices.
@ -127,4 +133,8 @@ resize_lvol_bdev [-h] name size
Resize existing lvol bdev
optional arguments:
-h, --help show help
inflate_lvol_bdev [-h] name
Inflate lvol bdev
optional arguments:
-h, --help show help
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