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On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:49:21 +0100 |
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Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Friday 16 September 2011 23:13:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > A word of advice when starting from scratch, give your VG(s) unique |
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> > names. I've seen what happens when someone takes a drive from |
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> > one Fedora system and puts it in another, so there are two VGs |
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> > called vg01. It ain't nice (only one is seen, usually not the one |
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> > you want). |
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> That would be nasty, yes, but here at home I don't expect to be |
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> switching disks around between machines. |
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> I did give a bit of thought to a VG naming scheme, but although |
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> several ideas came up, nothing was clearly the best so I left them at |
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> vg1 and vg2. |
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This is what GUIDs are for. |
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They are not the best thing to work with admittedly, but they are |
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guaranteed to be unique for all reasonable human needs. In a world |
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when we plug things out of anything and plug them back into anything, |
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a guaranteed unique ID is a necessaity. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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