[lvm-devel] Batch/queue LVM operations

[Eric Wheeler]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:

> Dne 31.7.2017 v 11:01 Germano Percossi napsal(a):
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Not sure if it an option for you but the Python bindings
> > allow you to instantiate a VG object that will hold the
> > lock and then issue all the commands you want before
> > flushing the metadata at the very end.
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Please avoid using these Python binding or lvm2app.
> Those 2 things are not being developed and are mostly left
> there purely for backward compatibility reasons. So no new APP should ever use
> it - and old APPs will simple face lots of troubles....
> 
> It's in general unsupportable to lvm2 this way (API was badly designed and
> we even figured later we really can't support it ).
> And it's even less usable to workaround locking across bunch of commands...
> 
> What is now being tested is dBus integration - but this has still long way to
> go.  So whenever you can - please use  lvm2 commands with is documented
> and well tested API.

Neat!

Will dbus support better batch processing times?

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Eric Wheeler

	

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> Regards
> 
> Zdenek
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