[dm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 1] dm exception store: exstore type lookup should be case insensitive

Jonathan Brassow jbrassow at redhat.com
Thu Jun 18 14:14:39 UTC 2009


This two line patch will fix the regressions some users are experiencing
with device-mapper snapshots.

 brassow

When snapshots are created using 'p' instead of 'P' as the
exception store type, the device-mapper table loading would
fail.

This patch allows the code to be case insensitive.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow at redhat.com>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ int dm_exception_store_create(struct dm_
 		ti->error = "Persistent flag is not P or N";
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
+	*argv[1] = persistent;
 
 	type = get_type(argv[1]);
 	if (!type) {





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