Re: renaming of device

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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.
> 


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