From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Question about dmevents
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:14:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070720171404.GC459@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D44F48C7D79D2943A073C8FA0F49A3CC0122633A@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:57:28AM -0700, Wood, Brian J wrote:
> Hi Alasdair, I also read in the definition of DM_DEV_CREATE that the
> uuid is optional. Since that is the case shouldn't the failure for not
> having a uuid in "_alloc_thread_status()" be taken out?
I don't know this code, but in general userspace code should use uuid if it is
present. If it isn't, it should fall back to using the name. Whether that
leads to sensible behaviour in this particular case, I don't know. If it
doesn't then it should be documented that uuid is a requirement.
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-07-20 16:57 ` Question about dmevents Wood, Brian J
2007-07-20 17:14 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2007-07-20 17:23 ` Wood, Brian J
2007-07-22 8:43 ` Peter Rockai
2007-07-22 11:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-07-23 16:43 ` Wood, Brian J
2007-07-24 14:46 ` Question about device-mapper/raid Wood, Brian J
2007-07-20 16:02 Question about dmevents Wood, Brian J
2007-07-20 16:16 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-07-20 16:22 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-07-20 16:44 ` Wood, Brian J
2007-07-22 8:53 ` Peter Rockai
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2007-07-16 15:08 Wood, Brian J
2007-07-17 14:04 ` Jonathan Brassow
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