[lvm-devel] [PATCH] lvconvert: provide useful error when snapshot-merge target missing

Zdenek Kabelac zkabelac at redhat.com
Thu Oct 14 09:04:02 UTC 2010


Dne 13.10.2010 23:42, Alasdair G Kergon napsal(a):
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:06:53PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
>> I think this will break shared (external) segment module ABI.
> 
> Indeed - we make no guarantees for that ABI and don't even bother 
> versioning it.  We don't believe there are any out-of-tree users.
> 

I'd propose to drop/turn off this feature completely - targets usually cannot
work without heavy tweaking through the rest of the code anyway. So in fact we
rather 'pretend' there is such functionality.

Zdenek




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