[lvm-devel] [PATCH] (6/11) re-introduce vg_read

[Dave Wysochanski]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:44 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
> Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha at redhat.com> writes:
> > It is a little confusing have a vg_read_for_update() (only intended for
> > WRITE) and a generic vg_read() (that allows both READ/WRITE) in the same
> > API.  Should we have "vg_read_for_update()" (WRITE) and
> > vg_read_for_query()" (READ) or something like that?
> Well, is it? I tend to think about it like "select", and "select for update" in
> SQL, although the analogy is not 100 % correct, I know. But I intended
> vg_read_for_update as a convenience function that obviously points out that you
> intend to update the VG (as opposed to just read it).
> 
> But, I suppose it's a bikeshed point. We however still want a generic vg_read,
> for the iterator functions (in toollib) which need to pass a flag to
> differentiate the read/write case.
> 

I liked the explicit read_for_update idea.

My main concern is app writer confusion.  Shouldn't they expect a
uniform API (one API for obtaining read access, one for write access)?
Don't you think someone not familiar with internals of LVM will ponder
this?