I agree that adding uuid to all messages would be gross bloat, and a bad idea to apply everywhere. I didn't actually realize that devices could be renamed with dmsetup. Thanks for pointing that out... On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:42 PM Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:24:33AM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > In other words, NEVER report name/uuid without ALSO still reporting > > dm_device_name alongside it. > > The reason we only log dm_device_name() is because it is the minimum > necessary to uniquely identify the device and tie together all > the messages relating to it. > > Adding name/uuid to every message would make log messages unduly long. > We could offer an in-kernel option to log all setting and changing > of device names and uuids in the dm core, though I might argue that that > would just be covering up inadaquate logging in the userspace tools > making the changes. > > Storage-logger offers a compromise that records it all from the > generated uevents. > > Alasdair > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
