Hi,
I reffered to /proc/partitions, a strange character code went
into a name sequence when I created 26 or more volume of LV(s)
on 2.4.19 with LVM-1.0.5.
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
58 0 3145728 lvma
58 1 3145728 lvmb
58 2 512000 lvmc
58 3 204800 lvmd
.........
58 24 53248 lvmy
58 25 53248 lvmz
58 26 53248 lvm{
58 27 53248 lvm|
58 28 53248 lvm}
58 29 53248 lvm~
58 30 53248 lvm
58 31 53248 lvm
58 32 53248 lvm
58 33 53248 lvm
58 34 53248 lvm
I think that this problem is depended on illegal codes of
a disk_name function(fs/partitions/check.c).
According to fs/partitions/check.c:
char *disk_name (struct gendisk *hd, int minor, char *buf)
{
.................
if (part)
sprintf(buf, "%s%c%d", maj, unit+'a', part);
else
sprintf(buf, "%s%c", maj, unit+'a');
return buf;
}
I think it is better that the LVM staff discuss the fault of
this code with Linux Kernel code maintainer.
--------
Kaoru
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