Add pvmetadatacopies to lvm.conf and pvcreate man pages.

diff --git a/lib/config/defaults.h b/lib/config/defaults.h
index 9f48d19032b925ee40bb7c0d074f1a43900571dc..3d8881ca065f2eab6307d451f764dee98ff8ef92 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/config/defaults.h
+++ b/lib/config/defaults.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 
 #define DEFAULT_STRIPESIZE 64  /* KB */
 #define DEFAULT_PVMETADATAIGNORE 0
+#define DEFAULT_PVMETADATAIGNORE_STR "n"
 #define DEFAULT_PVMETADATASIZE 255
 #define DEFAULT_PVMETADATACOPIES 1
 #define DEFAULT_VGMETADATACOPIES 0

diff --git a/man/lvm.conf.5.in b/man/lvm.conf.5.in
index 88f3ab35263f11605d3e1afa40db980d46b41ec5..4af73f3ddab13f65a06b2f83ed9a9f9b000c8394 100644 (file)
--- a/man/lvm.conf.5.in
+++ b/man/lvm.conf.5.in
@@ -406,6 +406,18 @@ The metadata areas are treated as circular buffers, so
 unused space becomes filled with an archive of the most recent
 previous versions of the metadata.
 .IP
+\fBpvmetadataignore\fP When creating a physical volume using the LVM2
+metadata format, this states whether metadata areas should be ignored.
+The default is "n".  If metadata areas on a physical volume are ignored,
+LVM will not not store metadata in the metadata areas present on newly
+created Physical Volumes.  The option can be overridden on the command
+line with \fB--pvmetadataignore\fP.  Metadata areas cannot be created
+or extended after Logical Volumes have been allocated on the device.
+If you do not want to store metadata on this device, it is still wise
+always to allocate a metadata area (use a non-zero value for
+\fB--pvmetadatacopies) in case you need it in the future and to use
+this option to instruct LVM2 to ignore it.
+.IP
 \fBvgmetadatacopies\fP \(em When creating a volume group using the
 LVM2 metadata format, this is the default number of copies of metadata
 desired across all the physical volumes in the volume group.  If set to

diff --git a/man/pvcreate.8.in b/man/pvcreate.8.in
index d0ba898e127842a1badf07a4586996c802a42ff3..3f26a1323e3bd29f84a61b5cb7c4e7f3194fc33d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/pvcreate.8.in
+++ b/man/pvcreate.8.in
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ pvcreate \- initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
 .RB [ \-M | \-\-metadatatype type ]
 .RB [ \-\-[pv]metadatacopies #copies ]
 .RB [ \-\-metadatasize size ]
+.RB [ \-\-metadataignore y|n ]
 .RB [ \-\-dataalignment alignment ]
 .RB [ \-\-dataalignmentoffset alignment_offset ]
 .RB [ \-\-restorefile file ]

diff --git a/tools/toollib.c b/tools/toollib.c
index 1ba8cdd84860d6a86379f640ea1f2585f3baf3a2..9ffbae2ac5b2c3da1a3840fd8d83199e556abdb6 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/toollib.c
+++ b/tools/toollib.c
@@ -1379,8 +1379,14 @@ int pvcreate_params_validate(struct cmd_context *cmd,
 
        if (arg_count(cmd, metadataignore_ARG)) {
                pp->mda_ignore = !strcmp(arg_str_value(cmd,
-                                                      metadataignore_ARG,
-                                                      "n"), "y");
+                                               metadataignore_ARG,
+                                               DEFAULT_PVMETADATAIGNORE_STR),
+                                        "y");
+       } else {
+               pp->mda_ignore = !strcmp(find_config_tree_str(cmd,
+                                       "metadata/pvmetadataignore",
+                                       DEFAULT_PVMETADATAIGNORE_STR),
+                                       "y");
        }
        if (arg_count(cmd, pvmetadatacopies_ARG) &&
            !arg_int_value(cmd, pvmetadatacopies_ARG, -1) &&