Bug#403687: [david@hardeman.nu: Re: Bug #406697 - Device nodes are
not removed when devices are brought down]
Steve Langasek
vorlon at debian.org
Mon Jan 15 11:45:41 UTC 2007
severity 403687 important
thanks
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:08:53PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote:
> I'll forward the same message to this bug that I forwarded to #406697
> (which is now closed). Feel free to substitute "cryptsetup" for
> lvm or any other suitable packages in the text below...
This bug report is filed against lvm2, not against cryptsetup?
> udev currently receives uevents from the kernel when a new device-mapper
> device mapping is created and creates a /dev/dm-* node. libdevmapper
> knows when devices are created/removed and creates the /dev/mapper/*
> nodes.
> However, the kernel will not (AFAIK) send uevents when device-mapper
> mappings are renamed, changed or removed, so udev is not able to remove
> the devices when appropriate.
> So the "fix" would be to add support for those uevents to the kernel
> and to change udev to act on them. Ideally it would create the /dev/dm-*
> devices and symlinks in /dev/mapper/*.
> Once that is in place, node creation can be removed from libdevmapper
> (meaning it will have to wait for the nodes to magically appear
> instead).
> There is a writeup on this with some more details at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UdevDeviceMapper
> However, I can't see that anything needs to be done in cryptsetup
> (except making sure that all works when/if this behaviour is changed in
> libdevmapper).
Ok, between Frans's messages and this one, I don't see any reason we should
consider resolving this bug a blocker for the release. The most impact
anyone has reported that these not-deleted device nodes have is to generate
some warning messages on shutdown. Aside from the practical problem of
trying to shove in changes to uevent handling this late, a few messy warning
messages for a particular use case isn't anything that we can't live with.
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