^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 1) =========
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 2) dm-linear
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 3) =========
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 4)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) Device-Mapper's "linear" target maps a linear range of the Device-Mapper
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 6) device onto a linear range of another device. This is the basic building
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) block of logical volume managers.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 8)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9) Parameters: <dev path> <offset>
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10) <dev path>:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11) Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 12) "major:minor" device-number.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13) <offset>:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) Starting sector within the device.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 17) Example scripts
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 18) ===============
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 19)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 20) ::
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 21)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 22) #!/bin/sh
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 23) # Create an identity mapping for a device
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 24) echo "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` linear $1 0" | dmsetup create identity
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 25)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 26) ::
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 27)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 28) #!/bin/sh
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 29) # Join 2 devices together
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 30) size1=`blockdev --getsz $1`
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 31) size2=`blockdev --getsz $2`
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 32) echo "0 $size1 linear $1 0
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 33) $size1 $size2 linear $2 0" | dmsetup create joined
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 34)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 35) ::
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 36)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 37) #!/usr/bin/perl -w
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 38) # Split a device into 4M chunks and then join them together in reverse order.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 39)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 40) my $name = "reverse";
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 41) my $extent_size = 4 * 1024 * 2;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 42) my $dev = $ARGV[0];
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 43) my $table = "";
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 44) my $count = 0;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 45)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 46) if (!defined($dev)) {
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 47) die("Please specify a device.\n");
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 48) }
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 49)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 50) my $dev_size = `blockdev --getsz $dev`;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 51) my $extents = int($dev_size / $extent_size) -
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 52) (($dev_size % $extent_size) ? 1 : 0);
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 53)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 54) while ($extents > 0) {
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 55) my $this_start = $count * $extent_size;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 56) $extents--;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 57) $count++;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 58) my $this_offset = $extents * $extent_size;
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 59)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 60) $table .= "$this_start $extent_size linear $dev $this_offset\n";
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 61) }
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 62)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 63) `echo \"$table\" | dmsetup create $name`;