2014-11-29 2:25 GMT+01:00 Robert White <rwhite@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On 11/28/2014 09:05 AM, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: >> >> For the disk autodetection, I still convinced that it is a "sane" default >> to skip the lvm-snapshot > > > No... please don't... > > Maybe offer an option to select between snapshots or no-snapshots but in much the same way there is no _functional_ difference between a subvolume and a snapshot in btrfs, there is no "degenerate" status to an LVM snapshot. > > It would be way more useful if the helper dumped a message via stderr or syslog that said something like "UUID=xxxxxxxx ambiguous, must select between /dev/AA and /dev/BB using device= to mount filesystem." > I agree with this. Sometimes people will exactly want to do that: mount the snapshot devices and not the origins. Listing devices in the device= mount option sounds perfectly sane. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
