[dm-devel] [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:40:28PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>  1) udev creates device node and sets permissions
>  2) devmapper no-ops since it already exists
 
...because libdevmapper has no notion that something other than itself
could have created it.  That's a bug, but provided the proper udev
integration isn't much longer in coming, I shan't bother to fix it.

Alasdair
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