Dne 26. 01. 19 v 22:14 Andrei Borzenkov napsal(a):
I attempt to put device nodes for volumes in sub-directory of /dev to
avoid accidental conflict between device name and volume group and
general /dev pollution. VxVM always did it, using /dev/vx as base
directory, so I would use something like /dev/lvm.
That is a very HARD task you want to achieve - I'd probably better advice you
to avoid doing this.
First - please start out with reasoning.
1.
Normally it really DOES NOT matter where device node is - it's in /dev and you
can create as my subdirs there - it will not help anything - as any app can
still find the node be there.
2.
You CANNOT change where /dev/dm-XXX node will appear - it's made by kernel
just one any DM device is created. Udev ONLY controls it's symlink.
3.
With LVM - we advice users to use /dev/vg/lv links - although you will find
out there are way more of them in your /dev pointing to final /dev/dm node -
so you SHOULD be using these symlinks for passing devices to VxVM.
4.
If all your work is because you want to avoid LVM commands to access device
you've created and passed to your VMs - you have number of way easier
solutions - personally I'd recommend to use FILTERS (in lvm.conf). Just
'accept' devices which are possible PVs for your hosting machine (be it
/dev/sd* or whatever else you have) and reject any other device from scanning
- this will greatly improve performance, avoids various scanning troubles and
also makes your VMs completely separated.
In the upstream (unstable git HEAD) we have something named 'scan_lvs' in
lvm.conf - where you can globally disable scanning of any activated LV (DM
device with LVM- UUID prefix) - but it's also not a perfect solution in case
you would need to use same actived devices locally and some others not.
Regards
Zdenek
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