Bug#405301: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#405301: bug 405301 - cryptoroot on LVM needs source dev /dev/mapper/* in crypttab

2007-01-08 Thread David Härdeman
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: Now, if it is handed a random device name such as /dev/X/Y, there is no way to tell what steps are necessary to create said node. Understood. I'm inclined to simply document that the LVM symlinks are not supported as device nodes.

Bug#405301: bug 405301 - cryptoroot on LVM needs source dev /dev/mapper/* in crypttab

2007-01-08 Thread Marcus Better
> Now, if it is handed a random device name such as /dev/X/Y, there is no > way to tell what steps are necessary to create said node. Understood. > I'm inclined to simply document that the LVM symlinks are not supported > as device nodes. An easy solutions might be to follow symlinks when genera

Bug#405301: bug 405301 - cryptoroot on LVM needs source dev /dev/mapper/* in crypttab

2007-01-08 Thread David Härdeman
I'm afraid it's not that simple. The source device is given to the initramfs script when it is executing, and the initramfs script needs to figure out how to create said device if it doesn't exist. Now, if it is handed a random device name such as /dev/X/Y, there is no way to tell what steps