2009/4/22 Gerry Reno <greno(a)verizon.net>:
Gerry Reno wrote:
>
> We just upgraded a number of machines to F10 and after a few weeks I've
> noticed something wrong with lvm. Some of our inhouse scripts are breaking
> that deal with lvm. When I look at /etc/fstab and mount I see entries what
> used to look like:
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 / ext3 defaults 1
> 1
> getting changed to this:
> /dev/dm-3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>
>
>
> Where does this '/dev/dm-3' device come from? I don't find it
referenced
> in any of the lvm tool outputs. Whatever caused this change to happen
> please revert this back to just listing lv's in normal lvm parlance please.
> These mysterious changes are breaking things and are a complete nuisance.
> How do we go about undoing these changes and how do we prevent this from
> happening again?
>
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
No one responded to this inquiry and these mysterious changes continue to
happen. How can we prevent this from happening?
Not sure what would cause that. Perhaps related to this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475773
Can you look back through /var/log/yum.log to work out which set of
package updates may have triggered the problem - that might provide a
clue.