Following up on myself... (as usual on mondays)...
Paul Bijnens wrote:
The good news is that Redhat just fixed this very recently.
in device-mapper-1.01.01-1.RHEL4, which you can install by up2date
or "yum update device-mapper".
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-188.html says:
> [...]
> - The inodes created in the /dev/mapper directory when devices are
> activated are now accessible by the 'disk' group used by some
> backup tools.
The bad news is that I just rebooted a Centos 4 under VMWare to test
it, with this patch installed, and the permissions are still bad.
brw------- 1 root root 253, 0 Jun 20 2005 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogRoot
Back to the drawing board or google page.
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