Bug#402410: debian-installer: LVM setup broken if hostname/VG contains a "-" character
On Mon, December 11, 2006 19:40, Frans Pop said:
> I need some help here.
>
> According to the test that David Härdeman introduced recently, a hyphen
> _is_ a valid character for VG and LV names.
>
> So what is the actual bug here:
> - a hyphen is not a valid character after all
> - the kernel/udev creates a device where a hyphen is doubled
> - the installer should anticipate that hyphens will be doubled
The last one (initramfs and cryptsetup already has code to detect this)
So a lv named "debian-lv" on a vg named "main-vg" will get a device name
like /dev/mapper/debian--lv-main--vg.
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David Härdeman
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