> It would seem Mohammed cared enough to write the patch, but not reply > to you with further clarification on why it needed... I thought I had already replied to the concern, but it seems the message didn’t get sent, apologies for that oversight! College academics kept me tied up, and I lost track of this, apologies once again. > BUT, in this instance it follows that: if lvm2 is allowing weird names > which require escacped characters _and_ dm-init is used then dm-init > needs to support handling them (dm-init is all about _not_ using > normal initramfs with lvm2 in all its glory). I completely agree with your point and am more than happy to provide further details or make any additional updates to the patch if needed, please let me know if anything else if needed. Thank you for your time. Regards Mohammed Anees