On 4/12/2011 4:49 AM, Karel Zak wrote: > Please, ask DM upstream developers... /dev/dm-N is private DM stuff. > We spent years to remove /dev/dm-N from userspace. My understanding of the word canonical semantically means the one true name the kernel calls the device, which is dm-N. If that is not supposed to be the canonical name, then it should not show up as such in /sys should it? Further, you say that "we spent years to remove /dev/dm-N from userspace", but if that were the case, then why did you just have to write a patch for mount to do so? Also parted uses /dev/dm-N as the canonical name, as does dmraid, and libc's canonicalize_file_name(), which is called by lvm2. Other than this patch you just wrote for umount, I am just not seeing anything that considers the /dev/mapper name to be the canonical name. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
