From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:14:31 +0000 Subject: Re: udev lvm permisions Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1229336451.19633.4.camel@linux-pqqd.site> In-Reply-To: <1229336451.19633.4.camel@linux-pqqd.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 18:06, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:02 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 15:55 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 16:47 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > >> > > All the device-mapper/lvm tools are disconnected from udev, and mess >> > > around in /dev on their own. No user higher in the layers >> > > udev/HAL/DeviceKit/Desktop has a clue what device-mapper did here. >> > > >> > Except on Ubuntu 8.10, which he says he is at least partly using ;) >> > >> > NAME="mapper/foo", MODE="", GROUP="" >> > >> > should work there >> >> And I hope this helps illustrate exactly why we need device-mapper/LVM >> to ship with proper udev integration.... >> > Alasdair and Kay both have the rules we use and the patches ;) Yep, and they are racy, we discussed that at the time you did that. It seems to work fine for you though, which is good. But I didn't want to add that any enterprise release, which we would need to support for many years. Device-mapper needs _proper_ udev integration, not a "overwrite each-other and the last one wins" solution. :) Kay