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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Re: dm targets with spaces in the name
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:18:28 -0500
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Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> We don't support them in dmraid and I find them principally bogus.
> Why not use '_' instead to avoid parsing hassles ?

Well I suppose you could convert spaces to underscores and the 
likelihood of a conflict with a name that originally had an underscore 
would be rather small.  Do you think that should be done in the format 
handler, or elsewhere?