[dm-devel] Issue with setting uid/gid/mode in multipath.conf

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:14 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:25 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > After adding this, I do a "multipath -F" following by "multipath" (or
> > multipath -F followed by /etc/init.d/multipathd restart), I see the
> > attributes are set properly on the device.
> > 
> > I reboot the system, the device is created (under /dev/mapper) but
> > attributes are not set as defined in the multipath.conf file.
> > 
> > Have you seen this issue ? 
> > 
> > I am using RHEL 5.3 ga version (kernel and tools).
> > 
> > I am not booting from a multipath device (IOW, there is no
> > multipath.conf in initrd).
> 
> Hi Chandra,
> 
> I've seen problems with this as well. In my testing the setting of the
> UID/GID is unreliable - in around one of five runs the uid/gid take the
> default instead of the configured value.
> 
> I'm intending to open a Red Hat BZ for this problem today.

Marc got there first:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518575

Cheers,
Bryn.