I am sorry it took me so long to get back to this. I had a good read over the code and this bug and I reached the conclusion that the proposed fix is not 100% adequate.
The issue at stake is a postinst creation of /dev/md* devices by the
mdadm package. The original created the devices only when devfs was
not in use and /dev/md0 didn't exist already. The current solution
creates them if /dev/md0 does not exist.
This works, but it's a hack. Namely:
- users of devfs will get an error (but who cares?)
- udev is somewhat circumvented and MAKEDEV used instead. While
this is ugly, it may also come with problems as udev gets more
and more important.
Thus I propose to change it to use MAKEDEV only if /dev/md0 does not
already exist, devfs is not in use, and udev neither, like so:
[ ! -e /dev/md0 ] && [ ! -e /dev/.devfsd ] && [ ! -e /dev/.udevdb ]
I am going to try this in 2.4.1-1, upgrading and clean installs,
with and without udev. If it works for udev, it should work for
devfs.
Stay tuned.
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