From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: "Linda A. Walsh" <lvm@tlinx.org>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...?
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:58:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711025811.GF7857@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1A526F.9090700@tlinx.org>
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:31:27PM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Notice the device name. notice how the single dashes are now displayed
> as two dashes?!?!
Roughly: a dash is the separator we chose, and we double it to escape a
real dash. But we still need to extend our escaping mechanism to handle
characters that udev states it doesn't support in primary device names
but which the old /dev did used to support (and so we still do).
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-11 1:31 [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...? Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-11 2:16 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-11 2:27 ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-18 5:52 ` Luca Berra
[not found] ` <4E2538E1.9040806@tlinx.org>
2011-07-19 15:39 ` [linux-lvm] mount's (&udev's) dirty little naming problem -- (was Inconsistent naming...?) Luca Berra
2011-07-11 2:58 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2011-07-13 10:47 ` [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...? Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-13 15:39 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-07-13 16:11 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-13 17:34 ` Males, Jess
2011-07-13 18:47 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-14 4:05 ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-18 2:38 ` [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming needs to be fixed (was Re: Inconsistent naming...?) Linda A. Walsh
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