[dm-devel] Configuring multipath for root device

[malahal at us.ibm.com]

Pradipmaya Maharana [pradipmaya at gmail.com] wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for all your comments, it worked for installaions on partitions.
> 
> Now the question is:
> Is it supposed to work the same way if the SLES is installed on LVM?

Hmmm, I don't know if LVM devices have by-id names. I never installed
SLES on LVM with multipath. Label is your best friend with LVM and that
is what RHEL uses, I believe.

> On SLES, under fstab, I do not see any device, except for the boot
> device; other entries does not have /dev/deisk mention. In such
> scenario, how am I supposed to make the /root device multipath-aware?

They probably have labels???