From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Rockai Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:12:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH]: Allow limited metadata changes when PVs are missing In-Reply-To: <1349840815.32340.6.camel@f16> (Jonathan Brassow's message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:46:55 -0500") References: <1349840815.32340.6.camel@f16> Message-ID: <87txu2r5xx.fsf@aldalome.mornfall.net> (sfid-20121010_121259_226031_DDC14B84) List-Id: To: lvm-devel@redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Jonathan Brassow writes: > The solution is to allow vgchange and lvchange to alter the LVM metadata > for a limited set of options - --[add|del]tag included. The set of > allowable options are ones that do not cause changes to the DM kernel > target (like --resync would) or could alter the structure of the LV > (like allocation or conversion). seems OK to me. Nevertheless, I would like to see a functional test along with the patch, to make sure the newly allowed options actually work as expected. Other than the missing test, ACK. Petr -- id' Ash = Ash; id' Dust = Dust; id' _ = undefined