[dm-devel] blacklist issues and more

[christophe varoqui]

On mer, 2005-06-22 at 12:21 -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:58:53 +0200
> christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui at free.fr> wrote
> 
> > Now you also have the CLI facility to remove checkers while keeping the
> > daemon online. That or restarting the daemon or sending a SIGHUP (not
> > implemented right now) seem legitimate to me when an admin changes a
> > config file. Isn't it ?
> 
> Yes, I like the SIGHUP idea best.  I'm not sure what you mean by
> "CLI facility to remove checkers".
> 
You should check out the git head and see the recent changes in the log.

> > > 
> > > An invocation of "multipath -F" did cleanup device files in 
> > /dev on my Red
> > > Hat AS 4 host
> > > but an invocation of "dmsetup remove <map-name>" did not.  
> > I was loath to
> > > experiment
> > > with "dmsetup remove_all" on my Red Hat host since my root 
> > device on that
> > > host is on
> > > a device mapper LVM2 logical volume.  Otherwise, I suspect 
> > that this command
> > > would
> > > fail to clean up device files in the same way "dmsetup 
> > remove_all" failed.
> > > 
> > I'll wait for you to pin down this problem.
> 
> I was hoping Alasdair or Lars would comment first :))
> 
I also commited an enhancement to the map removal logic :
Layered partitions (created by kpartx) increase the bottom map usage,
preventing its removal. The patch also removes unpinned partitions.

May be you were hit by this.

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