On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote:
Now, if it is handed a random device name such as /dev/X/Y, there is no
way to tell what steps are necessary to create said node.
Understood.
I'm inclined to simply document that the LVM symlinks are not supported
as device nodes.
An easy solutions might be to follow symlinks when generating the initramfs. I
just noticed that /dev/VG/LV is a symlink to /dev/mapper/VG-LV.
That's true...on the other hand, that will break other setups, such as
when /dev/disk/by-*/something is used (which is valid). Checking the
target of symlinks and seeing if they're inside /dev/mapper/ would
probably be necessary.
Alternatively, one could let cryptdisks warn that symlinks are used, so that
cryptdisks and the initramfs scripts will behave more similarly and not
surprise the user.
Mmm...I'll take a look at it...perhaps I think I'll add both the symlink
target check and the warning message...
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David Härdeman
