Bug#484370: lvm2: please consider adding pvinfo to the Debian package

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Wed Jun 4 08:57:34 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:42:20AM +0200, Uli Martens wrote:
>                         pvinfo parses the output of pvdisplay and
> lvdisplay. The reason I wrote pvinfo was to see this information at one
> glance, as pvinfo's output is much more human readably and condensed
> than that of pvdisplay / lvdisplay.

And this is exactly the problem. It parses human readable output. IMHO
it should use vgcfgbackup to get a metadata dump and read that.

Bastian

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