[dm-devel] Problem Delay construction of multipath device

Chelly Youssef (ISEFC) chilonnb at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 12:03:15 UTC 2010


hi,

i use rhel 5.4 and my hw/sw config is supported. how can i open a case. you
have the link ?

Thanks.

2010/1/12 Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chelly Youssef (ISEFC)
> <chilonnb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Problem: Delay construction of multipath device (/ dev/dm-3)
> [snip]
>
> > My fstab :
> [snip]
>
> [snip]
> > I made the upgrade to Redhat 5.4 (2.6.18-164.el5) but I have not solved
> the
> > problem. It must be done at boot
> >
> > How I can do. I can give you my "sosreport" if you want.
> [snip]
>
> I don't know if you have some problems related to latencies or oher,
> but I have two comments:
>
> - In general, at least in rh el 5.x, dm-x names are not persistent
> across reboots, so I think it is not safe to directly refer them in
> fstab.
> You can make a label on the fs, such as this, if they are ext2/3/4
>
> tune2fs -L homefs /dev/mpath2 (with /home umounted and pointing to
> mpath2 in this case)
>
> and then in fstab
> LABEL=homefs             240G  148G   93G  62% /home
>
> or create a volume group and refer the LV with something like this in
> fstab (VG=vgname, LV=lvname) in the first column:
> /dev/mapper/vgname-lvname
>
> - If you are using rh el 5.4 and your hw/sw config is supported you
> can open a case....
>
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