The Device Mapper - Red Hat LVM ADMINISTRATOR 5.0 Administrator's Manual

Appendix A. The Device Mapper
The Device Mapper is a kernel driver that provides a generic framework for volume
management. It provides a generic way of creating mapped devices, which may be used as
logical volumes. It does not specifically know about volume groups or metadata formats.
The Device Mapper provides the foundation for a number of higher-level technologies. In
addition to LVM, device-mapper multipath and the
The user interface to the Device Mapper is the
LVM logical volumes are activated using the Device Mapper. Each logical volume is translated
into a mapped device, Each segment translates into a line in the mapping table that describes
the device. The Device Mapper provides linear mapping, striped mapping, and error mapping,
amongst others. Two disks can be concatenated into one logical volume with a pair of linear
mappings, one for each disk.
The command is a command line wrapper for communication with the Device Mapper.
dmsetup
It provides complete access to the
general system information about LVM devices, you may find the
be useful.
For information about the options and capabilities of the
man page.
dmraid
system call.
ioctl
commands through the
ioctl
dmsetup
command use the Device Mapper.
libdevmapper
dmsetup info
command, see the
command. For
command to
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dmsetup
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