hdtvguy wrote:
My understanding is the Inserv. The 3.1.3 release notes mention it, I just assumed you could delete it, but you can't. Does look like you can rename it. I believe they are headed more to using vv sets and such for management, but they are short sighted and here is why.
They append RCP_ to the beginning and then .r and the last 4 of the serial number, I assume to create uniqueness, problem is the character limit is 31 so if you have more than 21 characters in the name you start to truncate the serial number and if you have more than 25 characters you loos uniqueness and potentially truncate the part that is based on your name.
The solution to that is easy, fix it so the internal structure is a 64bit GUID and the name is just a display name which can be a say 256 character string. It might take some cleanup in the code, but that's probably a good thing if they have cruft like a 31 character limit. The GUID can start with the serial number of the system that the vvol was created on so that it's guaranteed globally unique.