[dm-devel] unwanted kpartx partition delimiter persistance
Ron Peterson
rpeterso at mtholyoke.edu
Mon Nov 9 22:44:30 UTC 2009
2009-11-09_16:43:56-0500 Mike Anderson <andmike at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> Ron Peterson <rpeterso at mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> > While getting our multipath setup going, we edited
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_kpartx.rules to change the partition delimiter to
> > 'quack'.
> >
> > That's not the name we want in production, of course, so we changed it
> > to 'p'. The problem is, on every reboot, the /dev/mapper (and
> > /dev/disk/...) names come up with the old delimiter - 'quack'.
> It sounds like there is a copy of the old rules in your initrd.
>
> Did you update your initrd post adding "quack" and if so did you run it
> again after removing "quack"?
Ah. Yes, I compiled a new kernel. I don't have time at the moment to
verify this, but that's a very good lead. Thanks!
-Ron-
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