[lvm-devel] Batch/queue LVM operations

Germano Percossi germano.percossi at citrix.com
Mon Jul 31 09:22:18 UTC 2017


OK, good to know.

It was in non-production code, anyway.

Thanks,
Germano

On 07/31/2017 10:19 AM, 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.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Zdenek




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