LVM + Tripwire, bug or feature ?

[Bastian Blank]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:05:57AM +0100, Maurice Tambay wrote:
> If I am correct, whenever I modify (as in remove / create)  Logical
> Volumes on my workstation _and_reboot_, tripwire reports nearly all
> of /usr and /lib as modified. Upon looking into the tripwire report it
> appears that only the Device number has changed for these files.

Yes, device-mapper, which is used by lvm2, and lvm1 assignes device
number on activation of the logical volume.

> Also, should it be possible to instruct tripwire to ignore device number
> changes, I'm not sure whether I'd want to do this.

You won't have another way in the near future as we are on the way for
completely dynamic assigned device numbers.

> I hope I have not overlooked anything important (as in RTFM ;)). If so,
> please disregard this message, or better just reply RTFM ;). Anyway,
> your help and advice will be greatly appreciated.

You can currently set the minor of lvm logical volumes to a fixed value.

Bastian

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