From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n15N2Ucs005556 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:02:30 -0500 Received: from mailmx.futuresource.com (mailmx.futuresource.com [208.10.26.74]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n15N2FN0008395 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:02:15 -0500 Received: from ns1.futuresource.com (ns3.futuresource.com [10.207.192.125]) by mailmx.futuresource.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n15N2Eps015795 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:02:14 -0600 Received: from [10.207.193.131] (les-xp.futuresource.com [10.207.193.131]) by ns1.futuresource.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id n15N2Dx01785 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:02:14 -0600 Message-ID: <498B6FF5.9010307@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:02:13 -0600 From: Les Mikesell MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm2 specificiation References: <20090205224659.GU20668@agk.fab.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090205224659.GU20668@agk.fab.redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development 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