/dev/dm-? and /dev/mapper/
 

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right place to ask ...

I use kernel 2.6.22 and debian etch.

If I create a vg and some volumes in it I get the

/dev/dm-?

and

/dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv>

devices nodes.

If I try to mount the filesystem via label, sometimes /dev/dm-? and
sometimes /dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv> gets mounted.

That is the cause of some later errors in my setup.

The question is: how can I get rid of the dm-? (e.g. they should not
be created at all) oder how do I the mount to stick to
the /dev/mapper/... files?

TIA,
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/dev/dm-? and /dev/mapper/
 

device-mapper creates the /dev/dm-? names, I doubt you could get rid of
them.
LVM names are persistent, maybe instead of mount-by-label you could
change to mount the persistent /dev/VGname/LVname's



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From: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Wilhelm Meier
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:44 AM
To: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: [dm-devel] /dev/dm-? and /dev/mapper/

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right place to ask ...

I use kernel 2.6.22 and debian etch.

If I create a vg and some volumes in it I get the

/dev/dm-?

and

/dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv>

devices nodes.

If I try to mount the filesystem via label, sometimes /dev/dm-? and
sometimes /dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv> gets mounted.

That is the cause of some later errors in my setup.

The question is: how can I get rid of the dm-? (e.g. they should not
be created at all) oder how do I the mount to stick to
the /dev/mapper/... files?

TIA,
--
Wilhelm

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/dev/dm-? and /dev/mapper/
 

Hi Wilhelm,
Mount-by-label uses the links inside /dev/disk/by-lable/, which are
created by udev.
It seems to be a problem that udev races with device-mapper on debian.


2008/7/30 Wilhelm Meier <wilhelm.meier@fh-kl.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask ...
>
> I use kernel 2.6.22 and debian etch.
>
> If I create a vg and some volumes in it I get the
>
> /dev/dm-?
>
> and
>
> /dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv>
>
> devices nodes.
>
> If I try to mount the filesystem via label, sometimes /dev/dm-? and
> sometimes /dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv> gets mounted.
>
> That is the cause of some later errors in my setup.
>
> The question is: how can I get rid of the dm-? (e.g. they should not
> be created at all) oder how do I the mount to stick to
> the /dev/mapper/... files?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Wilhelm
>
> --
> dm-devel mailing list
> dm-devel@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
>

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