Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Corry <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:17:12 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:38, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:11:57PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote: > > Allow slashes ('/') within a DM device name, but not at the beginning. > > > > Devfs will automatically create all necessary sub-directories if a name > > with embedded slashes is registered. [Kevin Corry] > > Does this interact with the block device name representation in sysfs? > I don't think sysfs can handle names with '/' very well.
This patch shouldn't affect DM's interaction with sysfs.
The names in sysfs are generated by the DM core, and are all called "dm-x", where x is the device minor number.
The names referred to in the above patch are used only by the device-mapper ioctl interface, and are not seen by the DM core. These are the names generated by the user-space tools, and are the ones that are passed to devfs, which doesn't have a problem with embedded slashes.
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