On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 06:10:35PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Sorry for any inconvenience.  Calling an LVM volume group kvm is
> > a really stupid idea.
> >
> > This creates a
> > /dev/kvm so kvm cannot work.
> 
> Oh, that was clever!
> 
> I recently started preferring `/dev/mapper/<VG>-<LV>` over the
> (admittedly) prettier `/dev/<VG>/<LV>`, just because it lets me use TAB
> completion when I can't remember the VG name, but now you've convinced
> me that `/dev/<VG>/<LV>` is evil!

And then there are the lucky idiots like me, who always had /dev/mapper
"because everyone's doing it" (everyone is cryptsetup, in my case, but
hey).

Thanks, basti, for teaching me "why" :-)

Cheers
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t

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