Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > We don't support zeroing of the data in the error case so far and do return > an io error to the application. Later we plan to as an option. > > So today you get a read error if the block is not available and the data > is not zeroed in memory. No need to (ab)use LV_BMAP. > > If your application needs to distinguish those cases anyways, you would want > to stay with 'io error returned'. Ok it works as I expected. The error was coming from the fact that _I_ zeroed the partition to let the LVM utilties think that the PV isn't here. So the data returned was effectively coming from the partition. Instead I delete the partition, reboot and retest. Thanks for taking time to answer. -=( manu )=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
