[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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