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From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: dm targets with spaces in the name
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:09:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229350163.31942.6.camel@o> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493D8430.3010904@cfl.rr.com>

Am Montag, den 08.12.2008, 15:31 -0500 schrieb Phillip Susi:
> Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > which is a bug as per what I stated above, if true.
> > 
> > dmsetup knows nothing about the format of the table line - it's a simple
> > string - and should not be interfering with it: a backslash+space (after any
> > shell escaping) should get handled consistently, passed through to the target
> > and should work.
> 
> Nevermind, I must have made a typeo before because now the kernel 
> accepts targets with spaces in the name just fine, as long as they are 
> properly backslash escaped.
> 
> Heinz, you mentioned that dmraid should just not be using names with 
> spaces in them.  My first thought was to fix dmraid to backslash escape 
> the spaces, but you seem to have another idea in mind?

We don't support them in dmraid and I find them principally bogus.
Why not use '_' instead to avoid parsing hassles ?

Heinz

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-03 17:03 dm targets with spaces in the name Phillip Susi
2008-12-04 15:52 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2008-12-04 20:15   ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-05  1:59     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-12-05 16:58       ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-05 17:08         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-12-08 20:31           ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-15 14:09             ` Heinz Mauelshagen [this message]
2008-12-15 16:18               ` Phillip Susi
2008-12-16  8:55                 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2008-12-09 13:58   ` Arvin Schnell

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