From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Question about dmevents
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:15:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070722111553.GL459@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070722084315.GA9301@mornfall.net>
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:43:17AM +0200, Peter Rockai wrote:
> In fact, when using theh libdevmapper-event library, the client-side
> code should already fail, if a device has no uuid. In practice, this
> means that uuid-less devices cannot be monitored, but that is probably
> a case that is not really important (or is it?).
> I would probably prefer to just document this as requirement and keep
> things as they are. Comments?
That all makes sense to me.
name = user-friendly reference; can be changed at will
uuid = software-friendly reference, a constant for the life of the device
If we have existing software not setting up uuids then those programs need
investigating.
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-22 11:15 UTC|newest]
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
2007-07-20 17:23 ` Wood, Brian J
2007-07-22 8:43 ` Peter Rockai
2007-07-22 11:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
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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