linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 7/9] e2scrub_all: make sure there's enough free space for a snapshot

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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:26:58 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        darrick.wong@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] e2scrub_all: make sure there's enough free space for
 a snapshot

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:18:56PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> 
> So you're going to be calling vgs for every lvs even though you can have
> a whole bunch of them in the same vg. That's not very efficient.
> 
> You can just filter it out with the lvs at the start of the loop by
> adding the proper select string.
> 
> -S vg_free\>${snap_size_mb}

Good point.  BTW, that's why I had ignored one of your other
suggestions --- I needed LVM_VG_NAME, which means I needed more than
one output from lvs, so I use the output directly as you suggested.

        	   	     	  - Ted