Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 67511
lvm-1.0.3-5 pvmove has verbose flag on by default
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:41 EDT
just did a "pvmove /dev/hda5" and got tons and tons of info dumped to the screen as extents were moved. IMHO, that'd be nice for a verbose mode, but by default it'd be nice to have something basically like the e2fsck/wget/etc progress bar. As it stands, I had no idea what % of the way through the job I was and couldn't estimate finishing time, both of which would be nice to have. Adding to other long-running data-migration things may be a good idea as well, but pvmove is the one I've come across that could really use it :)
Request for program changes like these should go to the upstream developer, in this case sistina: you can find them at http://www.sistinia.com/
Heinz said the output I'm seeing isn't what pvmove's supposed to do - any chance this is an RH-added patch that's accidentally tripping the verbose flag on? https://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-June/011790.html
Created attachment 63050 [details] typescript showing the "ultra-verbose" output pvmove is sending
The extra debug was coming from the kernel itself and should be disabled in the release.