Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH storage] lvm: avoid warning due to human-readable text in vgs output

[Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>]

Am 12.01.24 um 10:09 schrieb Friedrich Weber:
> On 12/01/2024 09:57, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>> Am 11.01.24 um 17:58 schrieb Friedrich Weber:
>>>
>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=blob;f=lib/format_text/archive.c;h=5acf0c04a;hb=38e0c7a1#l222
>>>
>>
>>>  222                 log_print_unless_silent("Consider pruning %s VG archive with more then %u MiB in %u files (see archiving settings in lvm.conf).",
>>>  223                                         vgname, (unsigned)sum, archives_size);
>>
>> Can we pass a silent flag when invoking the command instead?
> 
> Good point. A quick test shows passing `-q` does not suppress the
> message, but passing `-qq` does. Documentation on `-qq` [1]:
> 
>> -q|--quiet ...
>> Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose.
> Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.
> 

That actually sounds like a single -q should be enough, but oh well...

> Not sure if automatically answering prompts with 'no' might cause
> problems -- I don't think I've ever seen a yes/no prompt by `vgs`
> though. What do you think?
> 

Since it's only for listing images, I'd be rather surprised by such a
prompt. And I really hope 'no' would then be the safe option ;)