Bug#550704: grub-pc - Needs to handle symlinks in /dev/mapper

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 13:22 +0200 schrieb Bastian Blank:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.97~beta4-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> I'm going to remove the workaround in lvm2 to make /dev/mapper/* real
> devices, they will be replaced by symlinks to /dev/dm-*.

Why?

Peter Rajnoha from the Redhat LVM/DM Team sent a mail to grub-devel to
ask us about our opinion to this:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00176.html#

All 3 mails linked at the bottom of the page is all which was talked
about grub-devel related to this topic.

Quote from his 2nd mail after my reply to it:

> Maybe the udev maintainers just prefer cryptic numbers for every real
> device and only accept symlinks for descriptive ones.

Yes, that's the case.

Sorry but that says everything.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer