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From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] /proc/partition problem
Date: Fri Aug 16 05:18:01 2002	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020816120315.B12990@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020815084944kaoru@rifu.bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>; from kaoru@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp on Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:49:44AM +0900

Well, we had support for correct logical volume names ages ago already.
Hasn't been accepted by kernel folks :(

We need to live with 'nasty' names in /proc/partitions, sorry.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:49:44AM +0900, kaoru@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I reffered to /proc/partitions, a strange character code went 
> into a name sequence when I created 26 or more volume of LV(s) 
> on 2.4.19 with LVM-1.0.5. 
> 
> $ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>   58     0    3145728 lvma
>   58     1    3145728 lvmb
>   58     2     512000 lvmc
>   58     3     204800 lvmd
> .........
>   58    24      53248 lvmy
>   58    25      53248 lvmz
>   58    26      53248 lvm{
>   58    27      53248 lvm|
>   58    28      53248 lvm}
>   58    29      53248 lvm~
>   58    30      53248 lvm
>   58    31      53248 lvm
>   58    32      53248 lvm
>   58    33      53248 lvm
>   58    34      53248 lvm
> 
> I think that this problem is depended on illegal codes of 
> a disk_name function(fs/partitions/check.c). 
> 
> According to fs/partitions/check.c:
> 
> char *disk_name (struct gendisk *hd, int minor, char *buf)
> {
> .................
> 
>         if (part)
>                 sprintf(buf, "%s%c%d", maj, unit+'a', part);
>         else
>                 sprintf(buf, "%s%c", maj, unit+'a');
>         return buf;
> 
> }
> 
> I think it is better that the LVM staff discuss the fault of 
> this code with Linux Kernel code maintainer.
> 
> --------
> Kaoru
> 
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Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-16  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-14 18:50 [linux-lvm] /proc/partition problem kaoru
2002-08-16  5:18 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2002-08-16  5:59   ` Luca Berra
2002-08-16  7:31     ` Joe Thornber

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