[lvm-devel] [RFC PATCH] Reduce noise about missing devices.

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:32:06PM +0200, Peter Rockai wrote:
> this is not intended to be directly applied, but more to start a
> discussion. One problem with our handling of missing devices is the huge
> amount of log noise each missing device produces. In a single run of
> lvconvert --repair, I get multiple screens of "read error" and "Couldn't
> find device with uuid"...
 
Well my first question before suppressing messages would be: Are all the
repeated accesses that generate the messages actually necessary?
Or are the messages just a symptom of other problems which should be
addressed instead?

Alasdair