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+package devmapper
+
+// Definition of struct dm_task and sub structures (from lvm2)
+//
+// struct dm_ioctl {
+// 	/*
+// 	 * The version number is made up of three parts:
+// 	 * major - no backward or forward compatibility,
+// 	 * minor - only backwards compatible,
+// 	 * patch - both backwards and forwards compatible.
+// 	 *
+// 	 * All clients of the ioctl interface should fill in the
+// 	 * version number of the interface that they were
+// 	 * compiled with.
+// 	 *
+// 	 * All recognised ioctl commands (ie. those that don't
+// 	 * return -ENOTTY) fill out this field, even if the
+// 	 * command failed.
+// 	 */
+// 	uint32_t version[3];	/* in/out */
+// 	uint32_t data_size;	/* total size of data passed in
+// 				 * including this struct */
+
+// 	uint32_t data_start;	/* offset to start of data
+// 				 * relative to start of this struct */
+
+// 	uint32_t target_count;	/* in/out */
+// 	int32_t open_count;	/* out */
+// 	uint32_t flags;		/* in/out */
+
+// 	/*
+// 	 * event_nr holds either the event number (input and output) or the
+// 	 * udev cookie value (input only).
+// 	 * The DM_DEV_WAIT ioctl takes an event number as input.
+// 	 * The DM_SUSPEND, DM_DEV_REMOVE and DM_DEV_RENAME ioctls
+// 	 * use the field as a cookie to return in the DM_COOKIE
+// 	 * variable with the uevents they issue.
+// 	 * For output, the ioctls return the event number, not the cookie.
+// 	 */
+// 	uint32_t event_nr;      	/* in/out */
+// 	uint32_t padding;
+
+// 	uint64_t dev;		/* in/out */
+
+// 	char name[DM_NAME_LEN];	/* device name */
+// 	char uuid[DM_UUID_LEN];	/* unique identifier for
+// 				 * the block device */
+// 	char data[7];		/* padding or data */
+// };
+
+// struct target {
+// 	uint64_t start;
+// 	uint64_t length;
+// 	char *type;
+// 	char *params;
+
+// 	struct target *next;
+// };
+
+// typedef enum {
+// 	DM_ADD_NODE_ON_RESUME, /* add /dev/mapper node with dmsetup resume */
+// 	DM_ADD_NODE_ON_CREATE  /* add /dev/mapper node with dmsetup create */
+// } dm_add_node_t;
+
+// struct dm_task {
+// 	int type;
+// 	char *dev_name;
+// 	char *mangled_dev_name;
+
+// 	struct target *head, *tail;
+
+// 	int read_only;
+// 	uint32_t event_nr;
+// 	int major;
+// 	int minor;
+// 	int allow_default_major_fallback;
+// 	uid_t uid;
+// 	gid_t gid;
+// 	mode_t mode;
+// 	uint32_t read_ahead;
+// 	uint32_t read_ahead_flags;
+// 	union {
+// 		struct dm_ioctl *v4;
+// 	} dmi;
+// 	char *newname;
+// 	char *message;
+// 	char *geometry;
+// 	uint64_t sector;
+// 	int no_flush;
+// 	int no_open_count;
+// 	int skip_lockfs;
+// 	int query_inactive_table;
+// 	int suppress_identical_reload;
+// 	dm_add_node_t add_node;
+// 	uint64_t existing_table_size;
+// 	int cookie_set;
+// 	int new_uuid;
+// 	int secure_data;
+// 	int retry_remove;
+// 	int enable_checks;
+// 	int expected_errno;
+
+// 	char *uuid;
+// 	char *mangled_uuid;
+// };
+//