[linux-lvm] When and why vgs command can change metadata and incur old metadata to be backed up?

[David Teigland]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> > that in theory are only reading and reporting information.  I've also
> > suggested that whenever repairs are done, lvm should record a persistent
> > message in the system log with the details, but that idea didn't get a
> > great reception.
> 
> Just to know: why the idea of syslog reporting was discarded?

It was so obviously correct to me that I had a hard time arguing for it.
I don't think any of the objections were satisfactory, e.g. nobody has
asked, nobody needs it, the metadata archives are good enough, you can
already configure log messages to go to syslog.

I am still hoping to do something like this either as a part of
centralizing metadata repair (in progress), or as a part of a broader
suggestion that did get a better response but will take more work.  That
was to create a new log file and format in which every lvm disk change is
recorded.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455671

Everyone is encouraged to give their feedback about that in that bz, or
create an "issue" on the lvm github.