Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:18:05 +0000 | From | (Heinz J. Mauelshagen) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM |
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:48:53PM +0000, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > > I can add a patch that does full-blown devfs > > > checking to the tools, but this needs a lot of work. > > > > Actually changing the tools to recognize devfs seems fairly simple. > > I am already working on it. > > > > _But_ the LVM Metadata on disk has the old names stored which causes the > > need to have an old naming sceme to new naming sceme admin change tool > > for handling this. > > That's the most difficult thing I was thinking about. > My idea was to simply ignore the actual name of the pv and > use it as UUID instead.
I already did that in the actual 0.9 LVM source. Every PV has its own UUID now and a list of all the UUIDs of all PVs of the VG in case it belongs to one.
> > I'll post the proposal to linux-lvm soon. > > > Christoph > > -- > Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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