[dm-devel] Where did /dev/dm-X go?

Luca Berra bluca at comedia.it
Tue Nov 28 10:31:01 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:30:37PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 03:09:11PM -0600, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
>>I have been using the dm-crypt interface to perform disk encryption.
>>For example, I helped add dm-crypt/LUKS support to HAL[1].
>>
>>Recently, I have found the cryptsetup no longer creates /dev/dm-X.
>>Instead, the only device node created by the utility is /dev/mapper/Y
>>(both were created previously.)  I am using an up to date Fedora Core 6.
>>
>>I am trying to figure out what user-space tool/library was responsible
>>for creating /dev/dm-X and why this device node is no longer created when
>>I create a dm-crypt device.  Could anyone point me in the right direction?
>you probably have an udev rule that ignores dm-[0-9]
>L.
>
btw, i read the code for blockdev_get_luks_uuid

sscanf? on the device file?

this is ridiculus what is sysfs for?

L.

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