Limitation on VG name in setup-storage?

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue Jul 2 13:38:50 CEST 2019


>>>>> On Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:57:48 +1200, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> said:

    > When we manually create them, we tend to name our VGs for SSDs as: vg-
    > ssd[0-9]+ .

    > However, setup-storage doesn't like that and ends up confused with the
    > colums on the vg line in the disk_config file.

    > Would it be able possible to have VG names allow hyphens?
Not sure, if this can be done easily. In the FAI example we use a hyphen
in the lv name, but not for vg.

Maybe this code in Parser.pm in line 936 is responsible for the limitation:
 name: m{^([^/,\s\-]+)}

You could try to remove \- and see if setup-storage is still working.

-- 
regards Thomas


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