[dm-devel] [PATCH] Use 'mpatha' for user_friendly_names option

[Hannes Reinecke]

Hi Guido,

Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:03:29AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> We really should use 'mpatha' instead of 'mpath0' for the
>> generated names with the user_friendly_names option.
>> Otherwise we can't distinguish them from EVMS names.
> 
> Is this really such a good idea? We shipped at least two upstream
> versions with this user friendly names default. Changing this causes
> problems and at least debian installer uses this during the installation
> phase.
> Wouldn't it be nicer to make the user_friendly_names_prefix configurable
> so people can choose mpath, npath, mp or whatever they want leaving
> mpath as the default? I can cook up a patch in that case.
> Cheers,
>  -- Guido
> 
(I knew someone would choke about this one ...)
Yeah, you're right. It would be nice to have that configurable.
Preferred would be to select a prefix and a naming scheme,
ie either numerical or characters.
Was just to lazy for this ...

Normally I don't use this option much; in fact, I discourage
everyone on using it :-)
I really loath to have external configuration files to get
your filesystem up.

But that's just me. Feel free to do so.

Cheers,

Hannes
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