[dm-devel] Chicken and egg problem with multipath-tools

Gabriel de Perthuis g2p.code at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 11:42:25 UTC 2013


> The problem is that multipathd wants to create a PID file under /var
> (which is at this time readonly). This fails and multipathd fails to
> start.

Distros handle this by putting pidfiles in /run, a tmpfs set up at early 
boot. There might be some magic to ensure that later mounts don't shadow 
it.




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