Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:08:47AM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:55:26PM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
>>>> From: Xinwei Hu <x...@novell.com>
>>>>
>>>> We prefer to activate the mirrored LV is in the degraded mode,
>>>> rather then failing to activate it at all.
>>> What are the possible consequences of using --partial to activate
>>> a volume group?
>> As I understand it, --partial will allow a mirrored volume group to be 
>> activated if some of the mirror drives are missing.
>>
>> It will also allow a group to be activated in read-only mode if drives 
>> (and data) are missing. So perhaps this --partial should be conditional on 
>> a parameter.
> 
> Yes, I'd really prefer that. It looks like a substantial
> semantical change to me. The man page says:

I think you and Xinwei both work for Novell/SUSE, right? Maybe you can 
sort it out amongst yourselves. The patch is in SLES. I don't actually 
need it, I just figured somebody should get it upstream.

Mike
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