[dm-devel] possible bug in device-mapper

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Fri Mar 19 20:56:38 UTC 2004


On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:30:18PM +0200, Yaroslav Popovitch wrote:
> if option <sector count> is equal to 0, then dmsetup 
> reports about error, but still creates device.
 
dmsetup is a simple tool that just stops when something fails: it's up to you to 
detect the situation and decide what recovery to do.

You ran a compound command, equivalent (IIRC) to:

  dmsetup create --notable ...
  dmsetup reload ...
  dmsetup resume ...

Alasdair
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