4 Device-Mapper's "linear" target maps a linear range of the Device-Mapper
5 device onto a linear range of another device. This is the basic building
6 block of logical volume managers.
8 Parameters: <dev path> <offset>
9 <dev path>: Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
10 "major:minor" device-number.
11 <offset>: Starting sector within the device.
18 # Create an identity mapping for a device
19 echo "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` linear $1 0" | dmsetup create identity
25 # Join 2 devices together
26 size1=`blockdev --getsz $1`
27 size2=`blockdev --getsz $2`
28 echo "0 $size1 linear $1 0
29 $size1 $size2 linear $2 0" | dmsetup create joined
35 # Split a device into 4M chunks and then join them together in reverse order.
38 my $extent_size = 4 * 1024 * 2;
44 die("Please specify a device.\n");
47 my $dev_size = `blockdev --getsz $dev`;
48 my $extents = int($dev_size / $extent_size) -
49 (($dev_size % $extent_size) ? 1 : 0);
51 while ($extents > 0) {
52 my $this_start = $count * $extent_size;
55 my $this_offset = $extents * $extent_size;
57 $table .= "$this_start $extent_size linear $dev $this_offset\n";
60 `echo \"$table\" | dmsetup create $name`;