On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:34:59PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 04/11/2011 08:22 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > Note that mount(8) canonicalizes all device names, so /dev/dm-N is
> > always translated to /dev/mapper/<name>. In the mtab should be
> > stored the /dev/mapper/<name> paths only.
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> - From what I have seen, this is backwards. The canonical name is
> /dev/dm-N. The friendly name is /dev/mapper/foo. Other tools I have
> seen that are given the /dev/mapper/ friendly name canonicalize it TO
> /dev/dm-N, and it appears that is what mount.ntfs is doing as well, and
> it should not be.
Please, ask DM upstream developers... /dev/dm-N is private DM stuff.
We spent years to remove /dev/dm-N from userspace.
Karel
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