attachLoopDevice attaches the given sparse file to the next available loopback device.

Useful helper for cleanup.

CookieSupported returns whether the version of device-mapper supports the use of cookie's in the tasks.

This is the programmatic example of "dmsetup create".

Returns whether error conveys the information about device Id already exist or not.

initialize the logger for the device mapper library.

Useful helper for cleanup.

TaskCreate initializes a devicemapper task of tasktype.

TaskCreateNamed is a convenience function for TaskCreate when a name will be set on the task as well.

UdevSetSyncSupport allows setting whether the udev sync should be enabled.

UdevSyncSupported returns whether device-mapper is able to sync with udev This is essential otherwise race conditions can arise where both udev and device-mapper attempt to create and destroy devices.

_LOG_DEBUG.

_LOG_ERR.

_LOG_FATAL.

_LOG_INFO.

_LOG_NOTICE.

_LOG_WARN.