[dm-devel] Re: dm-devel : disks being taken over by dm-raid/dm at boot.

[Tim Kirk <kirk ysbl york ac uk>]

On 15 Sep 2006, at 17:00, dm-devel-request redhat com wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:41:54 -0400
> From: AJ Lewis <alewis rackable com>
> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] (no subject)
>
> Sounds like dmraid is grabbing them.  I'm not sure where the  
> configuration for
> dmraid is, but that's a starting point.
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:00:06 -0400
> From: Dave Wysochanski <dave wysochanski redhat com>
> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] (no subject)
>
> > Surely there is some way to tell device-mapper to leave things alone?
> > I simply need four drives that I can use as four separate units - no
> > RAIDing, nothing fancy, but this it seems impossible to tell the OS
> > that...
> Did you try blacklisting in /etc/multipath.conf?

Thanks AJ, Thanks Dave.

I don't think I'm using multipathing : have no /etc/multipath.conf at  
all.

I thought I'd stopped dmraid, but it was still registering the drives  
it seems. I simply commented the dmraid startup lines out of /etc/ 
rc.sysinit and everything seems to be working how I want it to now.

There must be a nicer way of telling dmraid to leave things alone,  
but I couldn't find one and as this is working (and I'm not expecting  
to have to put a RAID on this machine in the future) I'm not too  
worried.

Cheers,

Tim