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Cannot create qube named a_cmeta #6475

Open DemiMarie opened 3 years ago

DemiMarie commented 3 years ago

Qubes OS version

Qubes release 4.0 (R4.0)

Affected component(s) or functionality

qubes-core-admin, VM creation

Brief summary

Creating a qube named a_cmeta fails if it is to be placed on an LVM pool.

How Reproducible

100%

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Try to create a qube named a_cmeta on an LVM pool

Expected behavior

QubesOS escapes the name to make LVM happy

Actual behavior

An exception occurs indicating a failure in qubesd. This is due to the name being reserved in LVM.

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DemiMarie commented 2 years ago

Changing milestone as this will require non-trivial changes to the LVM pool to fix, and is only a problem in (rare) corner-cases.