On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 20:55 -1000, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sep 7, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 04:08 -1000, David Cantrell wrote: > >> This changes the automatic partitioning code to name volume groups > >> using the hostname and naming logical volumes using the mount point. > > [snip] > >> This doesn't completely solve every problem, but maybe we can get > >> some > >> more unique and descriptive LVM names. > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > > Now that we've moved partitioning later, this seems more > > reasonable. Do > > we ever end up with localhost as the VG name with the patch? > > With what I have there now, yes. I think if localhost is the > hostname, we should probably just fallback to doing VolGroupXX as we > have been. > > > Also, it has the downside of making things less consistent from > > machine > > to machine if you have multiple machines. But perhaps the > > advantages of > > moving drives from machine to machine outweigh that disadvantage > > I mentioned that to people at FUDCon and the general consensus seemed > to be that people would prefer the name differences to gain the > capability of moving disks around more easily. Could you make the volgroup name be the same but put the hostname +mountpointname in the lv name? for example: /dev/volgroup00/myhost-srv /dev/volgroup00/myhost-home /dev/volgroup00/myhost-root ? -sv _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
