Bug#484823: multipath-tools: /etc/udev/rules.d/multipath.rules breaks LVM snapshots

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:07:49PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> With the add replaced with change, or the udev rule removed completely I've
> never seen a failure.
O.k. find. A mark the bug as fixed in lenny then.

>> Do you have a chance to try the packages from lenny? Kpartx is split out
>> into a separate package there and the udev rules are much more robust.
>> There are packports of this versions available here:
>>
>> http://debian.bzed.de/etch-backports/devmapper_1.02.24-4~bpo40+1.dsc
>> http://debian.bzed.de/etch-backports/multipath-tools_0.4.8-7~bpo40+1.dsc
>>
> Not easily on this machine. But I can probably test on another machine
> if it would help you.
Yes, this would help indeed. So we can be really sure that this is
fixed in lenny.

> Note that I've not tested if that add->change breaks anything else. I'm
> not even sure how to test this udev rule.
Basically this will only work with partitioned dm devices.
Cheers and thanks for testing!
 -- Guido