Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758294AbXENT4x (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 15:56:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754370AbXENT4q (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 15:56:46 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:35227 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753278AbXENT4p (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 15:56:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:55:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" cc: Christian Hesse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dm(-crypt) and /dev/disk/by-label/ In-Reply-To: <46485EC7.8040006@ums.usu.ru> Message-ID: References: <200705141348.48099.mail@earthworm.de> <46485EC7.8040006@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 28 On May 14 2007 19:06, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Christian Hesse wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> I have ext3 filesystems with labels on devicemapper crypted devices. These >> do not show up in /dev/disk/by-label/, in contrast to filesystems of my >> "real" partitions. Is this the expected behaviour or what could go wrong? > > Some distributions intentionally tell udev to ignore device-mapper devices > completely, for the following reasons: > > 1) without this prohibition, udev creates /dev/dm-* devices, and LILO breaks > completely if they are present instead of the correct /dev/mapper/* nodes > created by dmsetup and similar tools Uhm, openSUSE does not have this prohibition. /dev/dm-\d+ exist, /dev/mapper/\w+ exist, as do /dev/disk/by-label/\w+. Though, it uses GRUB by default. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/