From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate and lvremove --quiet option is not quiet
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:41:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110215134115.GA19353@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinLKNDt9XypbmsTZBRUPuOZty710geV5ku-CR6V@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 15 2011 at 8:02am -0500,
Jeff <jlar310@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The simple problem is that the code today does not distinguish between
> > essential output (to stdout) and incidental output (to stdout).
> >
> > If I run 'pvs' I expect a list of PVs.
> > If I run 'pvs --quiet' do I still expect to see that list?
> >
> > Today, there is no distinction: pvs output and the message you're wanting
> > to suppress are the same category of message.
>
> Yes, there should be a difference between "do-something" commands and
> "tell-me-something" commands. I hope there aren't too many cases where
> that's a gray area.
Ignoring the fact that we have a --quiet option for a moment, why is
the additional output of the command(s) so problematic?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-15 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-14 15:46 [linux-lvm] lvcreate and lvremove --quiet option is not quiet Jeff
2011-02-14 16:31 ` Ray Morris
2011-02-14 17:43 ` Jeff
2011-02-14 18:14 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-02-15 13:02 ` Jeff
2011-02-15 13:41 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2011-02-15 16:07 ` Jeff
2011-02-15 17:04 ` Mike Snitzer
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