[Linux-cluster] Get qdisk to use /dev/mapper/mpathx devices instead of /dev/dm-x

Charlie Brady charlieb-linux-cluster at budge.apana.org.au
Fri May 7 13:26:38 UTC 2010


On Wed, 5 May 2010, Celso K. Webber wrote:

> In my experience, I tend no to use the label in qdisk specification, 
> because it leads qdisk to use the first device it encounters containing 
> that label.

Your qdisk label should be unique, and you should be controlling 
visibility of qdisks.

> Another case is when the device is not found at all, this 
> happened to me before.

If that happens, you have a bigger problem than just using the qdisk label 
to identify the qdisk, don't you?




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