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1.35. device-mapper

1.35.1. RHBA-2010:0296: bug fix and enhancement update

Updated device-mapper packages that include various bug fixes and enhancements are now available.
The device-mapper packages provide a library required by logical volume management utilities such as LVM2 and dmraid.
This update applies the following bug fixes(BZ#536814):
* Fixes crash when hash keys compared are different lengths.
* Restores umask when device node creation fails.
* Does not fork daemon when dmeventd cannot be found.
This update adds the following enhancements:
* Adds splitname command which splits given device name into subsystem constituents.
* Adds y|--yes option to dmsetup for default 'yes' answer to prompts.
* Adds subsystem, vg_name, lv_name, lv_layer fields to dmsetup reports.
* Adds crypt target handling to libdevmapper tree nodes.
All users of device-mapper should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues and include these enhancements.