From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: "Linda A. Walsh" <lvm@tlinx.org>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Inconsistent naming...?
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:16:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711021630.GC7857@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1A526F.9090700@tlinx.org>
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.
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 2:16 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 [this message]
2011-07-11 2:27 ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-18 5:52 ` Luca Berra
[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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