F10: something broken with lvm

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/4/22 Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>>
>> We just upgraded a number of machines to F10 and after a few weeks I've
>> noticed something wrong with lvm.  Some of our inhouse scripts are breaking
>> that deal with lvm.  When I look at /etc/fstab and mount I see entries what
>> used to look like:
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 /                      ext3    defaults        1
>> 1
>> getting changed to this:
>> /dev/dm-3   /                     ext3   defaults      1 1
>>
>>
>>
>> Where does this '/dev/dm-3' device come from?  I don't find it referenced
>> in any of the lvm tool outputs.  Whatever caused this change to happen
>> please revert this back to just listing lv's in normal lvm parlance please.
>>  These mysterious changes are breaking things and are a complete nuisance.
>>  How do we go about undoing these changes and how do we prevent this from
>> happening again?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>>
> No one responded to this inquiry and these mysterious changes continue to
> happen.  How can we prevent this from happening?

Not sure what would cause that. Perhaps related to this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475773

Can you look back through /var/log/yum.log to work out which set of
package updates may have triggered the problem - that might provide a
clue.