[lvm-devel] [PATCH] Cleanup partial failure of activation
Jun'ichi Nomura
j-nomura at ce.jp.nec.com
Tue Nov 27 01:51:37 UTC 2007
Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> I don't believe this problem can be resolved with such a tiny patch.
>
> There are two approaches:
> 1) have proper reversion code inside the guts of the library activation code
> 2) let the caller, which possesses knowledge about the *sequence* of steps
> making up the operation, handle reversion sensibly
>
> I expect a mixture of the two - mostly (2) in the places we need it now (quick
> and easy and a few cases already done), but eventually more use of (1) which is
> technically a better solution (but harder).
Thanks for the explanation.
I see the point.
Thanks,
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Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation of America
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