On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:52:36PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 03.12.2008, 12:03 -0500 schrieb Phillip Susi: > > Is this allowed? It looks like you can create a target with a space in > > the name, but then you can not refer to it in a rule of another target. > > Specifically I am seeing a user with a dmraid setup with raid volumes > > using spaces in the name, and dmraid manages to create the stripe target > > ( /dev/mapper/foo bar ), but then can not create the linear mapping on > > top of it for the partition, because the table looks like it has too > > many arguments due to the space. > > What you describe here, is essentially caused by bogus names in vendor > metadata not being detected and handled properly by dmraid. > > Which metadata format is that being caused by ? > > Can you send me the metadata sample retrieved via "dmraid -rD" > (bzip2/tar the resulting *.{dat,offset,size} files before sending) ? For some other BIOS RAID (AIC-9405 controller) you can find those metadata in the openSUSE Bugilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396732#c28 Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@xxxxxxx> Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel