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. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
