On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:11:02AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 05:34:52 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, mdev != udev. People running RAID have problems too. > > I know it isn't. I just find it strange that LVM can't work without > udev when I see options which configure the LVM-tools to either > double-check udevs actions or even completely bypass udev:
Thanks for the pointer. After turning off the udev-related options in lvm.conf, I'm getting /dev/mapper device nodes as expected. I still can't get cryptsetup to work with LUKS, but it works fine *WITHOUT* LUKS as per instructions at http://sleepyhead.de/howto/?href=cryptpart#woluks In my case, the initial setup was... cryptsetup -y create usbkey1 /dev/sdb1 mkfs.ext2 /dev/mapper/usbkey1 mount -t ext2 /dev/mapper/usbkey1 /mnt/usbkey1 umount /mnt/usbkey1 cryptsetup remove usbkey1 ...and subsequent sessions... cryptsetup -y create usbkey1 /dev/sdb1 mount -t ext2 /dev/mapper/usbkey1 /mnt/usbkey1 ...do whatever... umount /mnt/usbkey1 cryptsetup remove usbkey1 The setup and teardown commands have to be done as root, but I've chowned /mnt/usbkey1 to waltdnes:users and confirmed that I can create and delete files and directories as a regular user. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
