On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 02:56:35PM +0200, Christophe Varoqui wrote: > Hi, > Those example udev rules are indeed unmaintained and should be removed not > to confuse distributors. > Distributors can't be asked to agree on a common udev ruleset. Ben, > Hannes, Xosé, Peter are you ok with my deleting the udev rules example ? I am personally fine with kpartx.rules being deleted. Red Hat doesn't package it. -Ben > Best regards, > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Zdenek Kabelac <[1]zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On 25.4.2016 14:10, Peter Volkov wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Zdenek Kabelac > <[2]zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:[3]zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 25.4.2016 12:52, Peter Volkov wrote: > > There is a problem: udev does not create partitions for > multipath > devices in > case I use kpartx.rules provided with multipath sources. I > found that udev > always go to kpartx_end after following line of rules: > ENV{DM_TABLE_STATE}!="LIVE", GOTO="kpartx_end" > > Just curious - what would you want to do with inactive table??? > > Actually don't understand what's this table and what's wrong with > that. There > is no traces of DM_TABLE_STATE variable in lvm2 sources. Yet there is > such > variable in udev rules file that comes with multipath sources: > [4]http://git.opensvc.com/gitweb.cgi?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=blob;f=kpartx/kpartx.rules;h=022361f907e873ac16fc75459b88af34b27576e5;hb=HEAD > > So you would need to figure out which rules would have set > DM_TABLE_STATE before ? (I assume such have never existed...) > > In Fedora/RHEL these kpartx.rules are not packaged as they are likely > some 'ancient' rules - IMHO most of that file is useless on today's > distros. > (Unsure about dm-wwn logic???) > > So it's rather question for upstream kpartx maintainer why these rules > are not maintained in any way. > > Vars like DM_TABLE_STATE are simply not created by dm rules. > > kpartx rules comes from year 2007, while dm rules started to be > maintained in 2009 - that may explain few things as well... > > That's Gentoo. But I think any distro that uses whatever upstream > prepares > have this problem. > > Have you opened any bugzilla anywhere ? > > Not yet. I'd like to understand what needs to be done first. > > Likely Gentoo should not install obsoleted udev rules file. > > Regards > > Zdenek > PS: I could be wrong here - since I've nothing in common with multipath, > so in such case - feel free to correct me.... > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > [5]dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > [6]https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx > 2. mailto:zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx > 3. mailto:zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx > 4. http://git.opensvc.com/gitweb.cgi?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=blob;f=kpartx/kpartx.rules;h=022361f907e873ac16fc75459b88af34b27576e5;hb=HEAD > 5. mailto:dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > 6. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
