Re: [dm-devel] possible bug in device-mapper

[Alasdair G Kergon <agk redhat com>]

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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