[dm-devel] bindings file; rename WWID to mpath alias

Mon Apr 26 23:00:14 UTC 2010

Is your bindings file located on a different [lv|partition] than / ?

It may cause this kind of troubles if so.

Brem 

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 13:58 -0600, Victoria A Smith wrote:
> After a system crash I have filesystem access problems when
> the multipathd service is started.  I noticed in the messages file
> and in output from multipath -ll that an alias is not being
> used:
> 
> messages:  [...] rename 350002ac002c506cc to mpath18
> 
> # multipath -ll
> [...]
> 350002ac002c506cc dm-12 3PARdata,VV
> 
> # ls -1 /dev/mpath/
> 350002ac002c506cc
> mpath10
> [...]
> 
> 
> The bindings file has:
> [...]
> mpath18 350002ac002c506cc
> 
> 
> Can the apparent failure of the alias-to-WWID mapping cause any problems?
> 
> 
> RHEL5.5
> 2.6.18-194.el5
> device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-34.el5
> QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.03.01.04.05.05-k
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Victoria
> 
> 
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