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From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rsarraf@netapp.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Cc: "Sarraf, Ritesh" <Ritesh.Sarraf@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Missing error handling in lv_snapshot_remove
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:03:09 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52039E15.10908@netapp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52020FD1.2000004@redhat.com>

Hello Zdenek,

On Wednesday 07 August 2013 02:43 PM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> 
> You are breaking the lvm2 logic thus pushing the code to go
> through unexpected error code path - user is never supposed to open
> so called 'private' /dev/mapper/ devices.

Just checking if this applies to other device types of DM, or just LVM?

We recommend our users to rely on /dev/mapper/* Multipath Devices, as
_persistent_ ones.

We also recommend to pvcreate on top of /dev/mapper/* Multipath Devices.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-08 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-06 17:37 [linux-lvm] Missing error handling in lv_snapshot_remove Bastian Blank
2013-08-07  9:13 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-08-07 12:36   ` Bastian Blank
2013-08-07 13:32     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-08-07 15:13     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-08-08 13:33   ` Ritesh Raj Sarraf [this message]
2013-08-09  9:50     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-08-07  9:22 ` Andreas Pflug
2013-08-07  9:41   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-08-07 17:18     ` Andreas Pflug
2013-08-08 10:01       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-08-09  7:57         ` Andreas Pflug
2013-08-09  9:40           ` Zdenek Kabelac

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