[dm-devel] Question about dmevents

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Sun Jul 22 11:15:53 UTC 2007


On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:43:17AM +0200, Peter Rockai wrote:
> In fact, when using theh libdevmapper-event library, the client-side
> code should already fail, if a device has no uuid. In practice, this
> means that uuid-less devices cannot be monitored, but that is probably
> a case that is not really important (or is it?).
> I would probably prefer to just document this as requirement and keep
> things as they are. Comments?

That all makes sense to me.

  name = user-friendly reference; can be changed at will
  uuid = software-friendly reference, a constant for the life of the device

If we have existing software not setting up uuids then those programs need
investigating.

Alasdair
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