[dm-devel] latest device-mapper cvs @ 1.02.00, but latest multipath-tools requires 01.03.00 ?

Christophe Varoqui christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Tue Nov 1 07:47:19 UTC 2005


On lun, 2005-10-31 at 16:39 -0800, Brian Wong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone else run into this problem?
> 
> The latest multipath tools explicitly requires a device mapper that
> reports a version of at least 1.3.0, but the latest cvs snapshot of
> device-mapper reports 1.02.00-cvs, at least according to 'dmsetup
> version' of the dmsetup in my cvs tree.
> 
the tools need multipath target version >1.0.3.
this is not the core devmapper version.

xa-s05:~/scm/multipath-tools-0.4.6# dmsetup targets
multipath        v1.0.4
striped          v1.0.2
linear           v1.0.1
error            v1.0.1

xa-s05:~/scm/multipath-tools-0.4.6# dmsetup version
Library version:   1.01.05 (2005-09-26)
Driver version:    4.4.0

> I used the following to pull the latest device-mapper tree:
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:cvs at sources.redhat.com:/cvs/dm checkout device-mapper
> 
> Is there a more recent version of device-mapper that I'm not aware of?
> 
> sneezy:/nfs/cadv05-misc/bwong/bwong-git-multipath-tools #
> multipath/multipath -d
> multipath       multipath
> 1,0,2   1,0,3
> DM multipath kernel driver version too old
> sneezy:/nfs/cadv05-misc/bwong/bwong-git-multipath-tools #
> 
You need to upgrade the kernel side, not the lib.

Regards,
cvaroqui





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