[dm-devel] multipath device name

[malahal at us.ibm.com]

Erez Zilber [erezz at voltaire.com] wrote:
> > Erez Zilber [erezz at voltaire.com] wrote:
> > > And another question:
> > > 
> > > I've added the following entry to multipath.conf:
> > > 
> > >         multipath {
> > >                 wwid    3600c0ff000d508d7def2894702000000
> > >                 alias   red
> > >         }
> > > 
> > > which should represent the following device:
> > > 
> > > 3600c0ff000d508d7def2894702000000dm-1 DotHill,R/Evo 2730-2R
> > > [size=82G][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> > > \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled]
> > >  \_ 16:0:0:0 sdc 8:32  [failed][faulty]
> > > \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
> > >  \_ 17:0:0:0 sdd 8:48  [active][undef]
> > > 
> > > Where should I see "red"? Is it under /dev somewhere?
> > 
> > If it worked, it should be /dev/mapper/red, but I have a suspicion that it
> > didn't work for you based on your above 'multipath -l' output.
> 
> No, it didn't work. Do I need to do anything special to make it work?

Did you remove the old device and re-run 'multipath' after making that
change to multipath.conf?