From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2JIPDbi013340 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:25:13 -0400 Received: from mail.bmsi.com (www.bmsi.com [24.248.44.156]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2JIOg2X026852 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:24:42 -0400 Received: from bmsred.bmsi.com (bmsred.bmsi.com [192.168.9.50]) by mail.bmsi.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m2JIObrS002174 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:24:37 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmsred.bmsi.com (8.13.5/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m2JIObDS013354 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:24:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:24:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stuart D. Gathman" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Characters allowed for vg name In-Reply-To: <20080319142144.GG12007@agk.fab.redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Pre-existing LVs may be found with these names, and the tools will normally > cope adequately. (Internally-generated LVs do use these reserved names - > that's why they are reserved.) I think that renaming is an excellent approach. If a reserved name is discovered when activating a VG, rename it to something legal but recognizable. I remember when this used to cause problems on AIX - because all LVs had to be unique, so importing a foreign VG would rename all the common LV names - very annoying. But this is not a big problem with lvm2 because only the VG needs to be unique. - -- Stuart D. Gathman Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBR+FaY4JnzZxkHLLFAQH+wAf7BTMrroddkgGBd0VQdBm2AQzZW41h9sIs 6jjdl16qu/InIYtR+gLWmqC3lTHZVLedoHAUOfMRrGWPn8rPOLXOU6VXuCN52nhH FBk6sxuDEu7a/olvaU3c62AOm/fSvrn4qp884zWk5dHpGDypQpGOczdl4botdafu CwIt3Ev7wUd5LT1t17/c9yfGG4e4LNf/LE97zGG1pf/IZkidWJHY14WYh2xUqM9P 1/u8aAkp0mD8EwyPTade4Hog2C+QIFrkKeV8oeP3kc9RRiSCz/QdwOmWcExcOJ6h 6Vyox46O5rVs+GYaLdRCcYSb9YcBsoCTUPgOjLeTlBC4YA9rZPJ+QQ== =BuS8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----