... All I did was find the issue number. The ticket follows the sensible approach: Document it, and close it as expected behaviour, and it did lead eventually

... All I did was find the issue number. The ticket follows the sensible approach: Document it, and close it as expected behaviour, and it did lead eventually to an LVM issue that did require a fix [0]. systemd did good here, above board, but there was a faff about it, because the expected behaviour of the audience differed from the reality of the situation. [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6174 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6174