[lvm-devel] [PATCH] Provide a new --sysinit switch for vgchange and lvchange

[Peter Rajnoha]

On 05/05/2010 03:48 PM, Petr Rockai wrote:
> Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha at redhat.com> writes:
>> In read-only environment, we normally use the same bunch of switches
>> to disable several things (--ignoremonitoring, --ignorelockingfailure,
>> --poll n, LVM_SUPPRESS_LOCKING_FAILURE_MESSAGES=1...) This is used
>> on system startup mainly. Maybe we could add a new switch that will
>> set everything automatically to make things a little bit cleaner and
>> more maintainable, so we don't have to bug people around to change
>> things if we need to add/change something (it could be used in
>> initscripts, dracut, anything similar...).
> I don't think one size fits all of the above. E.g. you want monitoring
> to be handled by initscripts but not by dracut.
> 

Well, both dracut and initscripts should have the same options/switches
used I think, including monitoring. Dracut already uses --ignoremonitoring
and rc.sysinit is about to change to include this one...

Peter