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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: xufeng zhang <xufeng.zhang@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Bug: LVM2 create long name device failed but we	can see it by run lvs
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:06:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112100604.GF28062@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDD0B18.8060200@windriver.com>

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:38:32PM +0800, xufeng zhang wrote:
> This is the bug description:
> When we create a logic volume with long names(such as 125), LVM2 will  
> return "Name too long" error
> and create volume failed. However, you will see it exist in volume group  
> if you run lvs command.
> The reason is that when LVM2 create a empty device in lv_create_empty()  
> function, it didn't check the
> length of device names, but the empty device activate failed afterward  
> because of too long name(vgname+lvname>128).

Thanks for reporting that.

Presumably 'vgrename' needs a similar restriction.

Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  9:38 [linux-lvm] Bug: LVM2 create long name device failed but we can see it by run lvs xufeng zhang
2010-11-12 10:06 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2010-11-13  7:34   ` xufeng zhang

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