On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 01:15, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Russell Coker (russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > The script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit has the following code to initialise LVM. > > Why is this necessary? Everything else in /dev can remain safely as it > > is between boots, why is LVM unlike everything else in that it requires > > it's device node to be re-created, why can't it get allocated a number in > > devices.txt? > > It's a dynamic major/mior. I suppose it could check that the current > dynamic major/minor matches what's on the filesystem... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127115 It would be nice if it could get an assigned number. But for the moment just stat'ing the device node and doing nothing when appropriate will do. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
