[linux-lvm] Changing dev_t-devname mapping in lvmlib seems to be problematic

[Alexander Lyakas]

Hi Stuart,
with device mapper it's very easy to switch the underneath stack,
using dmsetup reload. (So now you would ask why would I want to do
it?)

Alex.


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Alexander Lyakas wrote:
>
>>> dm-xxx devices are created dynamicaly - there is currently no way to
>>> have a fixed dm device node and it would be quite ugly to provide such
>>> feature.
>>
>> I did not understand this comment. Do you mean the dm-xxx devices that
>> LVM creates for its LVs? I was talking about dm-linear devices that I
>> use for PVs.
>
> Why are you using dm-linear for PVs?
>
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