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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    Re: [Linux-ha-dev] [PATCH 1/2] LVM: activate VG with --partial
From:       Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm () fastmail ! fm>
Date:       2010-09-24 8:55:19
Message-ID: 20100924085519.GC26736 () rondo ! homenet
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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:11:03PM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
> Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:08:47AM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
> >> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:55:26PM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
> >>>> From: Xinwei Hu <xwhu@novell.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> We prefer to activate the mirrored LV is in the degraded mode,
> >>>> rather then failing to activate it at all.
> >>> What are the possible consequences of using --partial to activate
> >>> a volume group?
> >> As I understand it, --partial will allow a mirrored volume group to be 
> >> activated if some of the mirror drives are missing.
> >>
> >> It will also allow a group to be activated in read-only mode if drives 
> >> (and data) are missing. So perhaps this --partial should be conditional on 
> >> a parameter.
> > 
> > Yes, I'd really prefer that. It looks like a substantial
> > semantical change to me. The man page says:
> 
> I think you and Xinwei both work for Novell/SUSE, right? Maybe you can 
> sort it out amongst yourselves. The patch is in SLES. I don't actually 
> need it, I just figured somebody should get it upstream.

Well, it's the other way around, this is the right place to sort
things like this out :)

Thanks,

Dejan

> Mike
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