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From: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:01:18 +0100
Subject: Batch/queue LVM operations
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Hi,

Not sure if it an option for you but the Python bindings
allow you to instantiate a VG object that will hold the
lock and then issue all the commands you want before
flushing the metadata at the very end.

Cheers,
Germano

On 07/28/2017 08:22 PM, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there an option to batch LVM operations?  
> 
> For example, I would like to delete 100 thin snapshots without updating 
> the vgmeta 100 times.
> 
> Same thing with lvcreate, lvresize, etc.  
> 
> If would be neat if `lvm`'s readline prompt could take multiple commands 
> via stdin and commit them once, even at the expense of longer lock times.
> 
> Is there already support for this in some form?
> 
> 
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