[dm-devel] [PATCH] thin_dump: added --device-id, --skip-mappings, and new output --format's

[Eric Wheeler]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:45:15AM +0000, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> > 
> > Please review the patch below when you have a moment.  I am interested in 
> > your feedback, and also interested in having this functionality merged 
> > upstream.  This was written against thin-provisioning-tools.git tag 
> > v0.5.6.
> 
> These changes are now on the v0.7-devel branch:
> 
> i) --dev-id to filter thin_dump output on device id, multiple selections allowed.
> ii) --skip-mappings
> iii) thin_dump now takes a format called 'custom' that let's you use a plugin emitter of your own.
> 
>      eg, 
> 
>      thin_dump --format custom=contrib/ewheeler_emitter.so /dev/sda
> 
> 
> The contrib/ directory is for third party contributions.  Use 'make
> contrib' to build it.  I've put your emitter and tmakatos' emitter in
> there already.
> 
> I hope that covers everything you need.

I think that will work nicely. Thank you!  

-Eric

> 
> - Joe
>