From: ben <benscott@nwlink.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] (bump) liblvm2app improvement suggestions
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:03:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12190884.WQ2Kanu2Zj@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2097280.qh0eFtcjbt@laptop>
bump
No comments?
On September 12 05:30:58 PM ben wrote:
> When reading the list of logical volumes using the library it can be really
> difficult to determine just what type of volume each one really is. The
> problem is that the attributes field doesn't cover all the possiblities. A
> volume can be an origin and a mirror or it may be a mirror log that is also
> a mirror. I have had to resort to parsing the name string for things like
> "_mlog" to determine what I am dealing with.
>
> It would be really helpful to have some functions like:
>
> lvm_lv_is_snapshot(const lv_t lv)
> lvm_lv_is_mirror(const lv_t lv)
> lvm_lv_is_origin(const lv_t lv)
> lvm_lv_is_mirror_log(const lv_t lv)
> lvm_lv_is_mirror_leg(const lv_t lv)
>
> and you get the idea.
>
> Thank you.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 3:03 UTC|newest]
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2011-09-13 0:30 [linux-lvm] liblvm2app improvement suggestions ben
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