[parted-devel] "linux: use devicemapper task name instead of device node name" causes dmraid breakage

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Mon May 17 14:39:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:37 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> > With newer lvm2 versions the files under /dev/mapper are no longer created
> > by the lvm tools, but by udev (as they should be). As a consequence they
> > are no longer device nodes but symlinks.
> >
A correction here.

Device nodes are no longer created by udev, they are now created by the
kernel's devtmpfs filesystem which we mount at /dev.

Scott
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