Bug 858111

Summary:	there is no explanation for --major option in lvchange man page.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Xiaowei Li <xiaoli>
Component:	lvm2	Assignee:	LVM and device-mapper development team <lvm-team>
lvm2 sub component:	Default / Unclassified	QA Contact:	cluster-qe <cluster-qe>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	Docs Contact:
Severity:	low
Priority:	low	CC:	agk, heinzm, jbrassow, msnitzer, prajnoha, prockai, qcai, thornber, zkabelac
Version:	7.0	Keywords:	Triaged
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Description Xiaowei Li 2012-09-18 02:07:24 UTC

Description of problem:
there is no explanation for --major option in lvchange man page.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lvm2-2.02.97-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. lvchange -h
====
	[-M|--persistent y|n] [--major major] [--minor minor]
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2. man lvchange
I only see the --minor option but don't see the --major option in the manpage.
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Comment 1 Peter Rajnoha 2012-10-19 08:41:20 UTC

--major option is not quite useful actually - with 2.6 kernels, we have dynamic major numbers so this option does not have any effect if used. We should probably consider removing this option OR issuing a suitable warning message + man page entry. There's also related bug #204997.