[linux-lvm] Re: device-mapper transition

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Oct 14 02:59:22 UTC 2002


On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:07:03AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:08:39PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Support is already in the kernel and libdevmapper for driver version
> > querying; should be just an issue of adding the check to the lvm2 tools.
> 
> The checks are already there - it's just *all* the error messages that need 
> reviewing:-)  I'll deal with these particular ones next week.
> 
> I'd like us to move towards the position where, like many other Unix 
> command line utilities, if no messages are displayed it generally
> means you can assume the command ran successfully.

That's fine as a default which can be configured to fall back to the LVM1
given standard for the success case in order to stay compatible with all
exec output parsers.

> 
> Alasdair
> -- 
> agk at uk.sistina.com
> 
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