Bug#329409: group and perms wrong in /dev/mapper

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Wed Sep 21 21:46:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> The code in create_dm_device() makes device nodes with mode 600, owner
> and group root.  I *think* that's the root cause of my problem.  Feel
> free to explain why you think the problem is elsewhere if I have
> mis-diagnosed the problem.

It creates the control device which is now obselete as libdevmapper
creates it if needed.

> I'm the maintainer of the makedev package, and it has created all disk
> devices with the following definition for years... thus this is what
> users and package maintainers expect:

makedev creates static device nodes, libdevmapper creates dynamic
entries.

Bastian

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