/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and lvm

[Bill Nottingham]

Russell Coker (russell at coker.com.au) said: 
> The script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit has the following code to initialise LVM.  Why 
> is this necessary?  Everything else in /dev can remain safely as it is 
> between boots, why is LVM unlike everything else in that it requires it's 
> device node to be re-created, why can't it get allocated a number in 
> devices.txt?

It's a dynamic major/mior. I suppose it could check that the current
dynamic major/minor matches what's on the filesystem...

Bill