[dm-devel] Re: dm targets with spaces in the name

Heinz Mauelshagen heinzm at redhat.com
Tue Dec 16 08:55:21 UTC 2008


Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 11:18 -0500 schrieb Phillip Susi:
> Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> > We don't support them in dmraid and I find them principally bogus.
> > Why not use '_' instead to avoid parsing hassles ?
> 
> Well I suppose you could convert spaces to underscores and the 
> likelihood of a conflict with a name that originally had an underscore 
> would be rather small.  Do you think that should be done in the format 
> handler, or elsewhere?

I was thinking along the same lines.
It should be done generically in the dmraid_read() code path.

Heinz

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