Bug#520027: lvcraete, lvremove: explicitly mention in the man pages that --quiet is not implemented

[shaul Karl]

In any case, shouldn't there be more documentation about having classes of messages, and the relation to --quiet? Or a suggestion to redirect to /dev/null for complete silence?

--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Bug#520027: lvcraete, lvremove: explicitly mention in the man pages that --quiet is not implemented
> To: shaulkarl at yahoo.com
> Cc: 520027 at bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 3:02 AM
> Nah, it is implemented.
> 
> It probably doesn't behave the way you would expect.
> All it does is override any verbose or debug settings.
> 
> It does not remove any other output issued by the program
> to stdout or stderr.
> 
> So you'll still get warning messages.
> 
> I'd reject that patch upstream, but instead suggest
> discussing whether to
> redefine --quiet to suppress additional classes of
> messages.
> 
> Alasdair
> -- 
> agk at redhat.com