From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] libdevmapper's handling of devices with spaces in the name
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:26:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140226232648.GA6021@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530E67E9.9060005@ubuntu.com>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:17:13PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I'm also still wondering why udev can't simply handle quoted names
> with spaces in them. People have been dealing with this sort of thing
> in shell for years...
Once you've had exposure to udev you soon learn that "wondering why" gets
you nowhere:) However bizarre, your only option is to conform.
Name mangling in lvm2/device-mapper was designed both to conform and
to still allow for all possibilities in as transparent a way as we could.
The primary new limitation is a reduction in the effective maximum length
of a device name due to the quoting. If this becomes a problem we will have
to extend the kernal API to support longer names.
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 17:04 [linux-lvm] libdevmapper's handling of devices with spaces in the name Phillip Susi
2014-02-26 18:21 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-02-26 18:37 ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-26 19:12 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-02-26 20:52 ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-26 21:40 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-02-26 22:17 ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-26 23:26 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2014-02-27 8:51 ` Peter Rajnoha
2014-02-27 9:08 ` Peter Rajnoha
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