[dm-devel] Partition(s) on boot time

Josef Whiter jwhiter at redhat.com
Tue Mar 7 13:57:21 UTC 2006


Hello,

This is a problem with our init scripts that will be fixed in U3.  The change is
to make kpartx run for every multipathed device like so

/sbin/dmsetup ls --target multipath --exec "/sbin/kpartx -a"

this is put in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit right after we load the dm-multipath module.
Thank you,

Josef

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:57:06AM +0000, Bahadir Kiziltan wrote:
> 
> Have a Dell PowerEdge 6850 server with 2 x Emulex LP1050 HBAs with the 
> latest firmware and BIOS connected to EMC CX300 storage system via 2 x SAN 
> switches. It's a fully redundant SAN fabric. A LUN sized and named 112GB is 
> dedicated to such server running RHEL4 U2. Here are some more details...
> 
> [root at devapp2 ~]# multipath -ll
> 112GB (36006016064e116004a8cdf7cd8a9da11)
> [size=112 GB][features="1 queue_if_no_path"][hwhandler="1 emc"]
> \_ round-robin 0 [active]
>  \_ 1:0:0:0 sdb  8:16    [ready ][active]
> \_ round-robin 0 [enabled]
>  \_ 1:0:1:0 sdc  8:32    [ready ][active]
> \_ round-robin 0 [enabled]
>  \_ 2:0:0:0 sdd  8:48    [ready ][active]
> \_ round-robin 0 [enabled]
>  \_ 2:0:1:0 sde  8:64    [ready ][active]
> 
> Such LUN is presented under "/dev" as "dm-0". Also "/dev/mapper/112GB" 
> device file is available. However I can't see partitions created on such 
> LUN without executing "kpartx" command manually.
> 
> [root at devapp2 ~]# kpartx -va /dev/dm-0
> add map dm-0p1 : 0 9783522 linear /dev/dm-0 63
> 
> I tried to modify script files under /etc/udev/rules directory but no luck.
> 
> How is it possible to make partition(s) available on boot time?
> 
> BTW, fail-over and fail-back operations are working flawless.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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