Re: udev and existing /dev (devtmpfs)

[Piotr Karbowski <piotr.karbowski@gmail.com>]

On 01/23/2012 06:00 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 17:41, Gabor Z. Papp<gzp@papp.hu>  wrote:
>
> It was always 'add' which was suggested. It was the default action,
> but it was changed to 'change' because 'add' must not be used anywhere
> else than once after bootup.
>
> Triggering 'change' has some valid use cases, not many though, and
> most of them are workarounds for broken things.
>
> Settle is only needed to block until broken subsystems catch up with
> reality during bootup, and with reality how hotplug systems work
> today. It is not pulled-in for systems which do not run broken or
> legacy tools.
> o
>
> Yes, that changed May 2010 with udev 154.

I just upgraded to udev-181 and the issue still is there. I believe the 
/dev/mapper/ nodes are created by kernel's devtmpfs but the /dev/dm-* 
are created by cryptsetup and lvm running in initramfs where is no udev 
running. Even if I umount devtmpfs on initramfs level and let udev mount 
it again, the changes will be still there. (I do mount --move to 
/newroot/dev). Maybe the 'action­d' should care about already-created 
nodes as well?

-- Piotr.