[linux-lvm] Characters allowed for vg name

[Stuart D. Gathman]

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:

> Pre-existing LVs may be found with these names, and the tools will normally
> cope adequately.  (Internally-generated LVs do use these reserved names -
> that's why they are reserved.)

I think that renaming is an excellent approach.  If a reserved name
is discovered when activating a VG, rename it to something legal but
recognizable.

I remember when this used to cause problems on AIX - because all LVs
had to be unique, so importing a foreign VG would rename all the common
LV names - very annoying.  But this is not a big problem with lvm2 because
only the VG needs to be unique.

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