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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:53:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071211175359.GV22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197394828.25082.39.camel@quest>

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:40:28PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>  1) udev creates device node and sets permissions
>  2) devmapper no-ops since it already exists
 
...because libdevmapper has no notion that something other than itself
could have created it.  That's a bug, but provided the proper udev
integration isn't much longer in coming, I shan't bother to fix it.

Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-11 16:08 [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 16:25 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 16:42   ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 17:03     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 17:18       ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 17:51         ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-11 18:08           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 18:25             ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-11 19:13               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 19:43               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 17:35 ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-11 17:40   ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 17:53     ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2007-12-11 19:09       ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 18:03     ` Kay Sievers

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