Re: /dev/dm-0

Heinz Mauelshagen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ataraid
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:21:39PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:55 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I have /dev/mapper/via_hfciifae as the base raid device, and partitions 
> > on the device with a number appended to the above.  I believe that the 
> > dmraid utility creates devices with this style of name, and if you are 
> > seeing /dev/dm-0 it is because udev is creating that node because as far 
> > as the kernel knows, the name of the device ( as exported by sysfs ) is 
> > "dm-0".  Udev probably shouldn't be creating device nodes for device 
> > mapper devices, but if it does, you can simply ignore them. 
> 
> Well, really we should fix the kernel, and make these /dev/dm-$DMNAME
> (and thus /sys/block/dm-$DMNAME )

Yes, that's the right way to go in order to get rid of this namespace issue.

> 
> -- 
>   Peter
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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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