Thanks, Anton. Any chance you're interested in submitting such a patch?
Cheers, -Brian Anton Smith wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have been using systemimager from CVS (a couple of nights old) for a > bit of a play. > > I've noticed something odd with lvdisplay (used in Common.pm to gather > lvm disk info). > > Basically lvdisplay is reporting the size as twice the value it should > be. The output even differs between columnised and non columnised: > > # lvdisplay > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > VG Name VolGroup00 > LV UUID tN692l-Usev-VzCG-ZZB5-QSwr-yrb9-6LHgE5 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 75.56 GB > Current LE 2418 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors 0 > Block device 253:0 > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 > VG Name VolGroup00 > LV UUID XsSEEW-SZtw-g37L-VKdO-M40B-HWeT-LHmvPP > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 992.00 MB > Current LE 31 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors 0 > Block device 253:1 > > > And columnised: > # lvdisplay -c > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00:VolGroup00:3:1:-1:1:158466048:2418:-1:0:0:253:0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01:VolGroup00:3:1:-1:1:2031616:31:-1:0:0:253:1 > > The values look very suspiciously like they have been doubled. > > The version of lvdisplay being used is: > # lvdisplay --version > LVM version: 2.00.31 (2004-12-12) > Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03) > Driver version: 4.1.0 > > This is on a redhat enterprise 3 box. > > Something to watch out for - perhaps it is something that can be > worked around? E.g. parse the output of non-columnised and compare it > to columnised, if they don't match then either alert the user, take > the non-columnised value, or just bomb. Or we could detect this > version of lvdisplay and simply halve the values it reports. > > Cheers, > Anton > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you > shotput > a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office > luge track? > If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play > to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-devel mailing list > Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
