Jim, thanks for pointing this out. It is in LVM1 CVS now. On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:00:36PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > This in regards to the following bug report I filed with Debian: > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140957&msg=4&repeatmerged=y > es > > I did some more debugging to figure out what bit me, and it turns out that > my problem was that my volume group was named just "a", and there was a new > check added to 1.1rc1 in vg_check_name.c that matched it against "ataraid" > (defined in _devdir[] in lvm_dir_cache.c). Very confusing. I don't think > the check was intended to work that way, so here's a patch: > > Index: vg_check_name.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /data/cvs/LVM/tools/lib/vg_check_name.c,v > retrieving revision 1.7 > diff -u -r1.7 vg_check_name.c > --- vg_check_name.c 2002/03/12 13:58:04 1.7 > +++ vg_check_name.c 2002/04/23 21:40:15 > @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ > else > filter = _devdir[d]; > > - if ( strncmp ( vg_name, filter, strlen ( vg_name)) == 0) { > + if ( strncmp ( vg_name, filter, strlen ( filter)) == 0) { > ret = -LVM_EVG_CHECK_NAME; > break; > } > > This bit me on several machines, since I used the same naming convention. > :-( > > Cheers, > > - Jim > > BTW, I don't believe that the Debian bug severity should have been > downgraded to just "important", as I almost lost all my data. Sorry to hear that :-( > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
