Device mapper

Device mapper

In the Linux kernel, the device-mapper serves as a generic framework to map one block device onto another. It forms the foundation of LVM2 and EVMS, software RAIDs, dm-crypt disk encryption, and offers additional features such as file-system snapshots.

Device-mapper works by processing data passed in from a virtual block device, that it itself provides, and then passing the resultant data on to another block device.

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Applications

Applications (like LVM2 and EVMS) that need to create new mapped devices talk to the device-mapper via the libdevmapper.so shared library, which in turn issues ioctls to the /dev/mapper/control device node. Developers can also access device-mapper from shell scripts via the dmsetup tool.

Device mapper applications

External links

References

  1. ^ Device-mapper Resource Page



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