On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:40:13PM +0100, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 10 December 2006 10:45, Mike Hommey wrote: > > As a hostname for this testbed, I chose "qemu-test", which, as far as I > > know is a valid hostname. > > > > When d-i was creating the filesystems, it complained it wasn't able to > > find /dev/mapper/qemu-test-* devices, and checking in the console > > showed that the devices were indeed named /dev/mapper/qemu--test-* > > instead. > > 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 hyphen is a valid character, but it is doubled in the /dev/mapper device name (because the hyphen separates VG and LV names). Note that the /dev/$VG/$LV mapping doesn't double the hyphens. Remaining question: are there others "special" characters in VG and LV names ? Mike
