Hi Luca, I doubt this is possible. The only possible thing would be: Modify DM, when a device name is passed in, to keep the passed in name alongside the actual major:minor and provide an IOCTL, to access the information. Regards -Sven On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 08:01 +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:33:13PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > >The algorithm is very simple (and was probably written before > >udev was used so these special links in /dev did not exist). > > > >So it need to add some preferred names and not print the first entry. > > > >Please can you add an issue to project pages to not forget about this? > >Probably good idea to fix it in next minor release. > it could be useful to have the functionality in device-mapper itself, > instead of duplicating in dm-crypt, lvm, dmraid, whatever ? > > Regards, > L. > _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt