[linux-lvm] dmsetup -split is buggy

Peter Rajnoha prajnoha at redhat.com
Mon Aug 15 11:30:34 UTC 2011


On 08/15/2011 11:34 AM +0100, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> dmsetup splitname, should, I believe, know how to split
> names in the only 'supported' name format  i.e. /dev/VG/LV -- but
> instead, it's treating it as though it were under /dev/mapper and using that for
> decoding...

dmsetup splitname accepts a device-mapper name as an argument,
/dev/VG/LV is a "logical volume path" and is not supposed to be
decoded this way...

Peter




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