[linux-lvm] lvm2 specificiation

[Les Mikesell]

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:54:00PM -0800, Vinay Srini wrote:
>> I have a requirement to mount multiple volume groups with the same name 
>> (VolGroup00, as that is the most popular default name), without first 
>> using vgrename (because something might go wrong, and I may not be able 
>> to restore the name back).
>  
> It was an early design decision that every VG on a system should have a
> different name.  Departures from that won't get supported - because it's so
> simple to choose different names!

How do you move drives around among machines then, if they have been 
created with the default names that will conflict?

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