Re: [PATCH] idea to automatic LVM naming

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 04:08 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> This changes the automatic partitioning code to name volume groups  
> using the hostname and naming logical volumes using the mount point.   
[snip]
> This doesn't completely solve every problem, but maybe we can get some  
> more unique and descriptive LVM names.
> 
> Thoughts?

Now that we've moved partitioning later, this seems more reasonable.  Do
we ever end up with localhost as the VG name with the patch?

Also, it has the downside of making things less consistent from machine
to machine if you have multiple machines.  But perhaps the advantages of
moving drives from machine to machine outweigh that disadvantage

Jeremy