[systemd-devel] udev - ignore/hide persistent storage

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 31.03.17 11:30, lejeczek (peljasz at yahoo.co.uk) wrote:

> > > sorry guys to bother you, but
> > >   I'll see myself going slowly mad next week, for I've been reading and
> > > tryingand trying..
> > > 
> > > and I fail to tell udev to ignore a device and not to create symlinks.
> > > I need someone to 100% confirm this should work in v.219.
> > > The way Ithink(or hope) it should work islike:
> > > 
> > > ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="c50033d225e1", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
> > udisks is not involved with creating device symlinks, that's all done
> > by udev itself.
> > 
> > To disable the persistent symlinks it shuld be sufficient to set the
> > UDEV_DISABLE_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_RULES_FLAG udev property early enough
> > in the rules, this then has the effect that
> > 60-persistent-storage.rules is skipped.
>
> apologies, there is quite a few webpages talking explicitly about udisk,
> take just that ENV I mentioned alone, plenty of docs suggesting above, so I
> thought..
> Is it just fedora/rhel do without udisk or those docs/posts with udisk are
> obsolete all together?
> thanks.

udisks is responsible for mounting file systems, but it isn't
responsible for creating device node symlinks

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat