Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan & CDROM

[Luca Berra <bluca comedia it>]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:42:33AM +0000, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Le 28.08.2005 13:07:37, Fredrik Tolf a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:17 +0200, Chris Osicki wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I seam not to be able to convince vgscan to let my cdroms alone.
> > > In the file /etc/lvm/lvm.conf I have this filter:
> > >
> > > [ "r|/dev/cdrom.*" ]
> >
> > Try it without the dot:
> > [ "r|/dev/cdrom*" ]
>   [ "r|/dev/cdrom*|"] maybe ?
>
> You can even be more restrictive/explicit:
> filter = [ "r|/dev/cdrom*|", "r|/dev/cdrw*|", "r|/dev/dvd*|",  
> "r|/dev/hd[ab]|" ]

i don't have the code at hand, but, if they are regular expression
"/dev/cdrom*" would match
/dev/cdrom
/dev/cdromm
/dev/cdrommm
/dev/cdrommmm
and so on..

see man 7 regex

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