[lvm-devel][PATCH] Add escape sequence for ':' in command's PV list

[Dave Wysochanski]

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:33 +0200, Peter Rajnoha wrote: 
> On 05/13/2009 09:43 PM, Dave Wysochanski wrote:
> > I know, it does not make sense to specify a pe range
> > for pvcreate or vgcreate.  But shouldn't we be consistent, or at least
> > very much clarify the arguments are different?  I can just imagine
> > someone scripting something and then being surprised when they needed to
> > quote only for lvcreate, pvmove, etc.
> 
> Hmm, then the question is, what should we do with single unescaped ':' if
> it appears in pvcreate, vgcreate, e.g. "pvcreate /dev/a::b:c" -- the first
> double one is OK, but what about the second single one? Should it be considered
> as an input error then? (...probably giving the user a message like
> "PE range definition not allowed here.")
> 

At this point I'd lean towards just clarifing the difference in the
arguments for the commands (e.g. in man pages, etc).  See attached patch
for a stab at updating the man pages.  If we go this route, then your
patch is fine as is IMO.

Also, on IRC yesterday, Alasdair suggested a new built-in command to
escape names such as this 
17:01:40 < deepthot> agk_: on the escaping, you mean someone would do something like: lvcreate -L 16M -n lvname vgname `lvmescape /dev/pname`?
17:05:07 < agk_> almost:   lvmescape /dev/path   then they can append :4-10 on it

IMO, this is a good idea.  However, in the spirit of not getting too
sidetracked, I think if we add proper explanation, we can probably defer
adding the built-in command, which probably requires some design thought
(for example, how to specify whether it is a pvname, vgname, etc - they
may have different characters to escape, etc).  If you want to tackle
that too though, go for it.


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