Bug 449128 - Renaming volgroup does not rename the mapper link
Summary: Renaming volgroup does not rename the mapper link
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lvm2
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Rajnoha
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-30 16:50 UTC by Chris Cogdon
Modified: 2009-07-15 08:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-07-15 08:28:25 UTC
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Description Chris Cogdon 2008-05-30 16:50:08 UTC
Description of problem:
When renaming a volgroup, the symlink in /dev/VolGroupNN is not also renamed.
Ie, it is possible to have something that says /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 ->
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

A typical occurance of this "rename" is inserting a LVM-enabled drive from one
machine into another. At that point you'll have TWO Volgroups Labelled
VolGroup00. One can be renamed by using the UUID of the VolGroup to distinguish
the two. However, when one mounts the renamed group, you'll get another copy of
the UNrenamed group because of the issue above.

A reboot solves this issue, but this should not be necessary. And, why did linux
not complain when the FS was mounted twice?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lvm2-2.02.33-11.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create two systems with LVM enabled. Put some special file in BOTH systems so
you can identify them as distinct. Eg: "echo ONE >/id" "echo TWO >/id"
2. Power down both systems and move one drive into the other, so that one system
has both drives
3. Power up that system.
4. Rename one of the volume groups from VolGroup00 to VolGroup01 (for example).
Use UUIDs. Eg: "vgrename FR7cBt-G7P6-KUd0-PM7Z-d08x-9bn2-M1WJiX VolGroup01"
5. Mount the new volume: mkdir /mnt/stuff ; mount /dev/VolGroup
6. Check the ids: "cat /id ; cat /mnt/stuff/id"
7. Check the symlinks: "ls -l /dev/VolGroup??"
  
Actual results:
YOu'll get:

ONE
ONE

indicating that the same drive is mounted twice.

And the result of the "ls" will show that VolGroup01/* still points to
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-*


Expected results:

ONE
TWO

The "ls" should show that VolGroup01 points to mapper's VolGroup01

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Rajnoha 2008-12-19 15:37:59 UTC
The fix has been uploaded to upstream CVS.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-07-15 08:28:25 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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