[lvm-devel] [PATCH] libdm-iface: not output error message inside retry loops

Zdenek Kabelac zkabelac at redhat.com
Thu Aug 27 11:59:14 UTC 2015


Dne 27.8.2015 v 10:30 Liuhua Wang napsal(a):
>      To avoid noisy error message being output inside retry loops
>      in case of remove failure because device busy.
> ---

Hi

It's in fact made 'noisy' intentionally - we normally should detect whether 
retry makes sense - so  what are the conditions when you experience this problem ?

Common scenario:

The major reason for retry is 'unpredictable'  udev event processing
i.e. you run  'umount' -> fires watch-rule -> lvremove  could have failed - 
retry fixes this problem.


Regards

Zdenek




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