Paul Bijnens wrote:

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Following up on myself... (as usual on mondays)...

And again following up on myself...  ;-)

And again following up on myself -- hey it's monday again :-)


Seems the bug was fixed in device-mapper 1.00.20 by making uid, gid,
and mode a compile time option in device-mapper. See bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141050

That means: if you create the modules yourself, you have to:

./configure --with-device-gid=6 --with-device-mode=0660 ...

each distributor should compile this themselves and use the correct
number for gid.  The default is uid=0, gid=0, mode=0600.

So that means that the bug now shifts to the configurators of
each distro :-)   At least it is going forward -- a little.

The Fedora 4 distro and Centos4.1 at least has the correct options in
the .spec file.  I don't understand (yet) why the permissions
are still wrong on the original devices in my CentOS4.1 installation,
while they are ok for the snapshot devices...


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