[dm-devel] Weird discrepancy between /dev/mapper/* and /dev/dm-* devices breaks lilo

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:00:10PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>  supposed to call something like "dmsetup info" on the
>  major/minor of dm-1 to translate this into a device mapper
>  "device_name"?  E.g.:

That would work.

>  Or is the device-mapper code supposed to accept device names from /dev
>  as parameters?
 
It does not do that at the moment.  Perhaps there's a case for adding
inode->device number conversions to dmsetup: You're the first person to suggest
this.

Alasdair
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