From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:52:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110718055228.GA9037@maude.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110711021630.GC7857@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:16:31AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>The canonical name to use is /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>.
>That's been inherited from the original LVM1 code and has never changed.
>That's the only form of the name to use to maintain compatibility.
>
>Other forms - dm-N and /dev/mapper/X-Y are internal and the format of
>those is not guaranteed: indeed there'll probably be some further
>changes soon to workaround some other completely arbitrary udev
>restrictions we don't cope with yet.
>
>Different versions of df and mount haven't always retained this
>preferred form for their output.
>
note that on a freshly installed rhel 6.1 i have this in fstab
/dev/mapper/vg_candela--lv_root / ext4 ....
L.
--
Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-11 1:31 [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...? Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-11 2:16 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-11 2:27 ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-18 5:52 ` Luca Berra [this message]
[not found] ` <4E2538E1.9040806@tlinx.org>
2011-07-19 15:39 ` [linux-lvm] mount's (&udev's) dirty little naming problem -- (was Inconsistent naming...?) Luca Berra
2011-07-11 2:58 ` [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...? Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-13 10:47 ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-13 15:39 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-07-13 16:11 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-13 17:34 ` Males, Jess
2011-07-13 18:47 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-14 4:05 ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-18 2:38 ` [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming needs to be fixed (was Re: Inconsistent naming...?) Linda A. Walsh
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