From: Steve Wray <steve@myself.gen.nz>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] which files, which physical volumes?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:58:11 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4157C813.90401@myself.gen.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040927003042.GO11810@agk.surrey.redhat.com>
Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:27:57PM -0700, Eric Hopper wrote:
>
[snip]
> Test mode works a different way in LVM2 - it's designed for testing
> and simply disables all writes at the lowest level of the code
> (to guarantee safety) - but reports success to the calling function.
> Many code paths don't yet say 'stop here if this is test mode' so
> they stop instead with an error when they find an inconsistency
> because they thought they changed something, but it got read back
> unchanged.
wow it makes a lot more sense now.
This could really do with going into the pvmove man page, which is a bit
sparse as it is...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-27 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-24 2:29 [linux-lvm] which files, which physical volumes? Steve Wray
2004-09-24 6:17 ` Luca Berra
2004-09-24 6:31 ` Steve Wray
2004-09-25 16:20 ` Clint Byrum
2004-09-25 16:50 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-09-25 22:05 ` Steve Wray
2004-09-26 23:49 ` Michael T. Babcock
2004-09-26 20:27 ` Eric Hopper
2004-09-26 20:38 ` Steve Wray
2004-09-27 0:30 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-09-27 7:58 ` Steve Wray [this message]
2004-09-24 19:00 ` John Stoffel
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