Hi Alasdair, thank you very much for the hint! But .. (see below) On 07.01.2018 03:52, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 02:04:06AM +0100, Oliver Rath wrote: >> Ive read here, the max length of a tag is 128: >> https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/stor_admin/data/lvmtagging.html > The original spec for this work remains in the source tree, > docs/tagging.spec: > > + 1) Tag character set: A-Za-z0-9_+.- > + Can't start with hyphen & max length is 128 (NAME_LEN). > Ive tried much more then 65000 chars and it worked: # lvchange --addtag `printf 'z%.0s' {1..77777}` levg/testsnap Logical volume levg/testsnap changed. # lvs -o lv_tags levg/testsnap ... [lots of z´s] ... Its definitly more than 128 characters .. Whats wrong now? Regards, Oliver _______________________________________________ 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/