linux-kernel - Re: Regression: device-mapper cannot open devices with identical uuids anymore

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Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:54:07 +0200
From:	Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>
To:	"Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression: device-mapper cannot open devices with identical
 uuids anymore

Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> somewhere between 2.6.26 and 2.6.30 device-mapper stopped being able to
> open multiple devices with the same UUID:

This is not related to kernel at all.

cryptsetup since 1.0.7 just started to set UUID for device and kernel 
device-mapper never allowed device with the same UUID.

See http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/issues/detail?id=34
(also for workaround, next version will have --disable-uuid option)

Milan
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mbroz@...hat.com

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