On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:08:29AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 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
I really don't want to waste time with discussion about the correct
term for /dev/mapper/<name> ... everything what I want to say is that
the /dev/mapper/<name> is preferred for userspace.
Karel
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