[parted-devel] "linux: use devicemapper task name instead of device node name" causes dmraid breakage

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:37 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> > With newer lvm2 versions the files under /dev/mapper are no longer created
> > by the lvm tools, but by udev (as they should be). As a consequence they
> > are no longer device nodes but symlinks.
> >
> > IOW /dev/mapper/foo no longer is a device node, but a symlink to ie
> > /dev/dm-0
> 
> IIRC the member of udev upstream who works for us disagrees with this
> naming scheme; Scott, could you comment?
> 
What Philip describes sounds about right to me, though I can't remember
whether we *rename* /dev/dm-0 to /dev/mapper/foo or symlink as he
suggests.

Since renaming devices is deprecated, it'll be a symlink in future I
suspect.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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