Since kpartx and multipathd don't wait on udev creating the device, there was a race between libdevmapper and udev to create the device. This meant that sometimes the /dev/mapper/ devices were devnodes, and sometimes they were symlinks. Now, for multipathd and kpartx called without -s, libdevmapper won't create the device nodes, so that udev will always be responsible for it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kpartx/devmapper.c | 4 ++-- kpartx/devmapper.h | 2 ++ kpartx/kpartx.c | 6 +++--- libmultipath/devmapper.c | 6 +++--- 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: multipath-tools-130109/libmultipath/devmapper.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-130109.orig/libmultipath/devmapper.c +++ multipath-tools-130109/libmultipath/devmapper.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ dm_simplecmd (int task, const char *name dm_task_no_flush(dmt); /* for DM_DEVICE_SUSPEND/RESUME */ #endif - if (udev_wait_flag && !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, &conf->cookie, 0)) + if (udev_wait_flag && !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, &conf->cookie, (conf->daemon)? DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK : 0)) goto out; r = dm_task_run (dmt); @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ dm_addmap (int task, const char *target, dm_task_no_open_count(dmt); if (task == DM_DEVICE_CREATE && - !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, &conf->cookie, 0)) + !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, &conf->cookie, (conf->daemon)? DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK : 0)) goto freeout; r = dm_task_run (dmt); @@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ dm_rename (char * old, char * new) dm_task_no_open_count(dmt); - if (!dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, &conf->cookie, 0)) + if (!dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, &conf->cookie, (conf->daemon)? DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK : 0)) goto out; if (!dm_task_run(dmt)) goto out; Index: multipath-tools-130109/kpartx/devmapper.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-130109.orig/kpartx/devmapper.c +++ multipath-tools-130109/kpartx/devmapper.c @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ dm_simplecmd (int task, const char *name if (no_flush) dm_task_no_flush(dmt); - if (udev_wait_flag && !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, cookie, 0)) + if (udev_wait_flag && !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, cookie, (udev_sync)? 0 : DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK)) goto out; r = dm_task_run(dmt); @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ dm_addmap (int task, const char *name, c dm_task_no_open_count(dmt); - if (task == DM_DEVICE_CREATE && !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, cookie, 0)) + if (task == DM_DEVICE_CREATE && !dm_task_set_cookie(dmt, cookie, (udev_sync)? 0 : DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK)) goto addout; r = dm_task_run (dmt); Index: multipath-tools-130109/kpartx/devmapper.h =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-130109.orig/kpartx/devmapper.h +++ multipath-tools-130109/kpartx/devmapper.h @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ #define MINOR(dev) ((dev & 0xff) | ((dev >> 12) & 0xfff00)) #define MKDEV(ma,mi) ((mi & 0xff) | (ma << 8) | ((mi & ~0xff) << 12)) +extern int udev_sync; + int dm_prereq (char *, int, int, int); int dm_simplecmd (int, const char *, int, uint32_t *); int dm_addmap (int, const char *, const char *, const char *, uint64_t, Index: multipath-tools-130109/kpartx/kpartx.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-130109.orig/kpartx/kpartx.c +++ multipath-tools-130109/kpartx/kpartx.c @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct pt { } pts[MAXTYPES]; int ptct = 0; +int udev_sync = 0; static void addpts(char *t, ptreader f) @@ -205,7 +206,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv){ int loopro = 0; int hotplug = 0; int loopcreated = 0; - int sync = 0; struct stat buf; uint32_t cookie = 0; @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv){ what = DELETE; break; case 's': - sync = 1; + udev_sync = 1; break; case 'u': what = UPDATE; @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv){ } #ifdef LIBDM_API_COOKIE - if (!sync) + if (!udev_sync) dm_udev_set_sync_support(0); #endif -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel