On Wed May 10 2006 3:36 pm, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:26:14PM +0200, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: > > Hi, I encountered a very serious bug with LVM today. I'm using > > lvm2-2.01.04-5 from Debian stable, kernel 2.6.17-rc3 > > # lvm version > > LVM version: 2.01.04 (2005-02-09) > > Library version: 1.01.00-ioctl (2005-01-17) > > Driver version: 4.6.0 > > What I did: > > * created a LV in an LVM1 VG using EVMS (yeah, I know) with a > > space in the name (yeah, yeah, I know, I know :-)); > > LVs are not permitted to have spaces in their names. > EVMS should have prevented you from doing that! Hmm...looks like the lvm2 format plugin in EVMS does check for spaces when creating a new VG or LV, but the lvm1 format plugin does not. I've added a patch to fix the lvm1 plugin. Sorry for the trouble. :( I guess this case is sufficiently unusual that no one has hit before, or at least not mentioned it to me before. -- Kevin Corry kevcorry@us.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/linux/ http://evms.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
