[linux-lvm] Bug in error code for lvm_vg_open()
Dave Wysochanski
dwysocha at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 04:03:15 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 21:01 -0800, ben wrote:
> If a volume group is clustered and the cluster is not running, lvm_vg_open()
> fails and prints a message about skipping the group. However, lvm_errno() and
> lvm_errmsg() are not updated. It would be really useful (to me) if the error
> number was set to something specific to the clustering issue rather than a
> generic error.
>
Thanks for reporting. I see the code in question and will work on
updating the error codes and messages.
> Also, where are the errors defined or are only the standard system ones being
> used?
>
We are using errno codes and trying not to define LVM-specific codes.
The idea was to divide up lvm operations into small enough pieces and
re-use errno codes.
> Thank you and keep up the good work.
>
>
thank you for the feedback.
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