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From:   Daniil Lunev <dlunev@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu, 4 Aug 2022 06:44:53 +1000
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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/1] dm: add message command to disallow device open
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        Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
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> Have you also considered unlinking the device node (/dev/dm-$idx) from the
> filesystem after it has been set up for swap?
Yes, the node can be re-linked with mknod, thus is not a suitable solution.