From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm2 specificiation
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:02:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498B6FF5.9010307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090205224659.GU20668@agk.fab.redhat.com>
Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:54:00PM -0800, Vinay Srini wrote:
>> I have a requirement to mount multiple volume groups with the same name
>> (VolGroup00, as that is the most popular default name), without first
>> using vgrename (because something might go wrong, and I may not be able
>> to restore the name back).
>
> It was an early design decision that every VG on a system should have a
> different name. Departures from that won't get supported - because it's so
> simple to choose different names!
How do you move drives around among machines then, if they have been
created with the default names that will conflict?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 22:46 [linux-lvm] lvm2 specificiation Alasdair G Kergon
2009-02-05 23:02 ` Les Mikesell [this message]
2009-02-05 23:13 ` Vinay Srini
2009-02-06 11:08 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-02-06 15:10 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2009-02-06 15:26 ` [linux-lvm] " Stefan Monnier
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2009-02-05 21:54 [linux-lvm] " Vinay Srini
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