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Upstream commits 6ea68f233c2196856fbc008e30b1eb17deb62701 through 6b777ccbb5dca4a6d80b8b0bf071993c049f6a9f adds support for config validation.

lvm.conf has a new "config" section with new "checks" and "abort_on_errors" options:

# This section allows you to set the way the configuration settings are handled.
config {
 
  # If enabled, any LVM2 configuration mismatch is reported.
  # This implies checking that the configuration key is understood
  # by LVM2 and that the value of the key is of a proper type.
  # If disabled, any configuration mismatch is ignored and default
  # value is used instead without any warning (a message about the
  # configuration key not being found is issued in verbose mode only).
  checks = 1

  # If enabled, any configuration mismatch aborts the LVM2 process.
  abort_on_errors = 0
}

Also, lvm dumpconfig has been enhanced to output several types of config trees:

[1] raw/~ # lvm dumpconfig --help
  dumpconfig: Dump configuration

dumpconfig
	[-f|--file filename] 
	[--type {current|default|missing|new} 
	[--withcomments] 
	[--withversions] 
	[--ignoreadvanced] 
	[--ignoreunsupported] 
	[--atversion version]] 
	[--validate]
	[ConfigurationNode...]

Where type is one of:
  - current: the original behaviour of lvm dumpconfig, just output existing lvm.conf/--config
  - default: output all possbile config nodes with default values
  - missing: output all missing config nodes that are not written in lvm.conf/--config (for which default values are used)
  - new: output all new options introduced in version that is defined by the --atversion arg (if --atversion is not specified, current version is assumed)

--withcomments will add a short commentary on output for each config node if it was defined

--withversions will add a commentary on output for each config node with an LVM version in which the config node appeared

--ignoreadvanced will cause the output to not include any advanced nodes

--ignoreunsupported will cause the output to not include any unsupported nodes (the ones which are targeted for internal or debug purposes only)

--validate will validate the lvm.conf/--config on demand (no matter what the config/checks setting is set to)


---

A few examples (pvs used, but works for all tools globally):

(adding unrecognized global/abc setting while config/abort_on_errors=1 is used)
[3] raw/~ # pvs
  Configuration setting "global/abc" unknown.
  LVM configuration invalid.

(adding unrecognized global/abc setting while config/abort_on_errors=0 is used)
[3] raw/~ # pvs
  Configuration setting "global/abc" unknown.
  PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize  PFree
  /dev/vda2  fedora_raw lvm2 a--  19.51g    0 

(using recognized global/umask setting, but with wrong type)
[3] raw/~ # pvs 
  Configuration setting "global/umask" has invalid type. Found string, expected integer.
  PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize  PFree
  /dev/vda2  fedora_raw lvm2 a--  19.51g    0 


(lvm dumpconfig enhancements)
[3] raw/~ # lvm dumpconfig --type current config
config {
	checks=1
	abort_on_errors=1
}

[3] raw/~ # lvm dumpconfig --type default config
config {
	checks=1
	abort_on_errors=0
}

[3] raw/~ # lvm dumpconfig --type default config --withcomments
# Configuration section config.
# Configuration handling.
config {
	# Configuration option config/checks.
	# Configuration tree check on each LVM command execution.
	checks=1
	# Configuration option config/abort_on_errors.
	# Abort LVM command execution if configuration is invalid.
	abort_on_errors=0
}

[3] raw/~ # lvm dumpconfig --type default config --withcomments --withversions
# Configuration section config.
# Configuration handling.
# Since version 2.2.99.
config {
	# Configuration option config/checks.
	# Configuration tree check on each LVM command execution.
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	checks=1
	# Configuration option config/abort_on_errors.
	# Abort LVM command execution if configuration is invalid.
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	abort_on_errors=0
}

[3] raw/~ # lvm dumpconfig --type new --withversions
# Since version 2.2.99.
config {
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	checks=1
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	abort_on_errors=0
}
# Since version 2.2.77.
allocation {
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	thin_pool_zero=1
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	thin_pool_discards="passdown"
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	thin_pool_chunk_size=64
}
# Since version 1.0.0.
log {
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	debug_classes=["memory", "devices", "activation", "allocation", "lvmetad", "metadata", "cache", "locking"]
}
# Since version 1.0.0.
global {
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	raid10_segtype_default="mirror"
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	thin_disabled_features=""
}
# Since version 1.0.0.
activation {
	# Since version 2.2.99.
	raid_region_size=512
}

and so on...

Marking Verified with lvm2-2.02.103-0.100.el6


Users should be aware that the configuration tests are done after lvm.conf syntax checking, so that improper syntax inside the config file (unquoted string for example) would produce a syntax error rather than a configuration check error. 

Man page of lvm(8) as of this version does not contain explanations of each command line options. It is supposed to be added in a future version (it's still in the works).

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1704.html