Hi Stuart, with device mapper it's very easy to switch the underneath stack, using dmsetup reload. (So now you would ask why would I want to do it?) Alex. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Alexander Lyakas wrote: > >>> dm-xxx devices are created dynamicaly - there is currently no way to >>> have a fixed dm device node and it would be quite ugly to provide such >>> feature. >> >> I did not understand this comment. Do you mean the dm-xxx devices that >> LVM creates for its LVs? I was talking about dm-linear devices that I >> use for PVs. > > Why are you using dm-linear for PVs? > > -- > Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> > Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 > "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for > a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
