Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:02:15 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM |
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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'll post the proposal to linux-lvm soon.
Christoph
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