On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 14:13 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > There is currently no way to override dracut's preference for > /dev/mapper device names. But using these is problematic in > different scenarios: For example, if a user has a multipath- > enabled system but wants to disable multipath, or if the > names of multipath maps change because of configuration changes > (e.g. toggling user_friendly_names in /etc/multipath.conf). > > This patch makes dracut prefer the user-specified > --persistent_policy names over /dev/mapper names. > > It might be worthwhile to discuss why dracut prefers /dev/mapper > of /dev/disk/by-uuid at all. This preference was introduced > in 9037b63e with the argument "dm devices maintain /dev/mapper/* as > persistent names", but that's wrong for the scenarios mentioned > above, and is not a compelling reason for preferring /dev/mapper > over /dev/disk/by-uuid. Ping - does nobody have an opinion on this suggestion? Regards Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
