On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:20:27AM +0100, christophe varoqui wrote: > Hello, > > what's the rationale behind the enum-style naming of DM in /sys/block ? > a nasty side effect is that /udev names are not the DM name like devfs > did (/dev/mapper/vg01-vol01), but those dm-0, dm-1, ... > > One might insert yet another rule in udev to translate, but I wondered > if there was a real reason for the dm-* names. > > Either way, I can get rid of the mknod code in the multipath tool, and > let udev react to /sys/blocl/$any-dm-name spawning. Greg if you confirm > that assertion, I'll submit this patch for the next udev release. udev should be able to handle dm-* names just fine as long as there is a 'dev' file in the directory for them (which I'm pretty sure there is...) thanks, greg k-h