From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Multipath Usage Guide available at LVM wiki page
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:32:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201228340.2634.43.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080125021429.GC28785@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:14 -0800, malahal@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Chandra Seetharaman [sekharan@us.ibm.com] wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:33 -0800, Pradipmaya Maharana wrote:
> > > Hi Chandra,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the document, it surely is helpful.
> > >
> > > I had a query (which I have asked in previous mails), the document
> > > does not talk about how to install SLES on multipath devices with LVM.
> > > Basically I tried installing with creating partitions (for both RHEL
> > > and SLES) and it worked fine; LVM worked fine for RHEL but for SLES it
> > > won't work.
> > >
> > > - It won't let me mount-by device-id for LVM
> > > - specifying the volume label won't help.
>
> Are you saying it won't help or it did NOT help?
>
> > You could put your lvm on top of the multipathed dm-device. For which
> > you may have to disable lvm probing in the initrd phase. You can do this
> > by changing your /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and then running mkinitrd.
> >
> > You have to change the filter line to be like this:
> >
> > filter = [ "a|/dev/mapper.*|", "a|/dev/disk/by-name/.*|", "r|.*|" ]
> >
> > Let me know if this helps.
>
> multipath should be run before lvm (even in initrd), if so, how does
> this filter help? LVM will not be able to claim plain devices in the
> presence of multipath devices anyway, right?
It can. I have seen it happen (in sles9 though). multipath opens the
(sd) device and later lvm scans the same device, it fails (as there is
already an open reference).
The filter above helps in making lvm read the multipathed device instead
of the underlying scsi device, and hence the lvm scan succeeds.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-24 18:25 Multipath Usage Guide available at LVM wiki page Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-24 18:33 ` Pradipmaya Maharana
2008-01-24 22:21 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-01-25 2:14 ` malahal
2008-01-25 2:32 ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2008-01-25 8:44 ` root
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