[linux-lvm] [BUG] Spaces in LVM1 LV names => *deep trouble* when converting to LVM2

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:36:26PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:26:14PM +0200, Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
> >     * there should be a mechanism for dealing with corrupt LVM
> >       metadata, at the minimum a global command-line switch to
> >       temporarily disable checksum verifications.
> 
> Nope.
  
I should add that what you should do is extract the metadata you've
retrieved off disk directly into a file, fix it in the file
(differences in whitespace & comments don't matter) then use 
vgcfgrestore -f.

Alasdair
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