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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>,
	LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] libdevmapper's handling of devices with spaces in the name
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:52:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530E541C.9040001@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530E3CAA.1070308@redhat.com>

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On 2/26/2014 2:12 PM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> As said - there is no bug in libdm - libdm expects udev to create
> nodes. You can reconfigure libdm to do this job instead of udev -
> but then nothing else will work with it - so it's basically
> dead-road...

It doesn't matter who creates it, what matters is that when parted
asks what the correct name is, that it be told the name that actually
is created.

> The best you can do is to not use names which needs mangling -
> that's my best suggestions (and lvm team already spend countless
> hours on some usable workarounds and solutions...)

Unfortunately, it seems that a number of hardware vendors ship
preconfigured fakeraid setups with a space in the name of the volume.

> For mangling see 'dmsetup mangle' help - how to obtain device
> names...

Is there a libdevmapper call to do this?


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26 20:52 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 [this message]
2014-02-26 21:40         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-02-26 22:17           ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-26 23:26             ` Alasdair G Kergon
2014-02-27  8:51             ` Peter Rajnoha
2014-02-27  9:08             ` Peter Rajnoha

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