Device mapper
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device-mapper-294-2244733
title:
Device mapper
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The device mapper is a framework provided by the Linux kernel for mapping physical block devices onto higher-level virtual block devices. It forms the foundation of the logical volume manager (LVM), software RAIDs and dm-crypt disk encryption, and offers additional features such as file system snapshots. Device mapper works by passing data from a virtual block device, which is provided by the device mapper itself, to another block device. Data can be also modified in transition, which is perform
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Software framework of Linux kernel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_mapper
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2024-01-29T13:40:25Z
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