[lvm-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Never set mirror log and images directly visible in metadata.

[Petr Rockai]

Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com> writes:
> Petr Rockai wrote:
>> Well, I believe the use-case is that when the operation fails halfway (which
>> happens from time to time -- more often than would be comfortable, even), you
>> can clean up by hand, since those offending LVs became visible. If there is a
>> reasonable procedure that the admins can follow to get rid of the junk LVs in
>> those scenarios, I'm fine.
>
> Maybe we should display these "invisible" LVs to user (in reporting commands)
> if no visible LV references them (I mean _mimage, _mlog & Co. devices)
Sounds like a decent solution to me.

> Admin can remove these insvible LV even now (lvremove works), but must
> run "lvs -a" to found them first...
Ok.

Yours,
   Petr.

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