From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM preference for multipath verses disk/by-id/scsi
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:54:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262609658.18517.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29ae894c0912300352k29bbd06dha89b7dd0045c550@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 12:52 +0100, brem belguebli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> see man 5 lvm.conf there is an option called preferred_names which is
> well explained
>
> It'll instruct lvm to use the preferred_names you configured in the
> lvm.conf file if they exist
>
> ie : preferred_names = "/dev/mpath/" will use /dev/mpath/XXX instead
> of /dev/mapper/XXX
It's best not to use the symlinks in /dev/mpath - they are not always
reliable. Use the device nodes created in /dev/mapper instead.
Regards,
Bryn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-30 10:18 [linux-lvm] LVM preference for multipath verses disk/by-id/scsi Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2009-12-30 10:31 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2009-12-30 11:52 ` brem belguebli
2009-12-30 12:37 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2009-12-30 12:40 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2009-12-30 13:00 ` brem belguebli
2009-12-30 13:45 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2009-12-30 14:15 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2010-01-04 12:54 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2010-01-04 13:17 ` brem belguebli
2010-01-05 10:52 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2010-01-05 11:25 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2010-01-05 16:12 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2010-01-11 14:12 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2010-01-11 15:18 ` Eugene Vilensky
2010-01-11 16:06 ` Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2
2010-01-12 1:13 ` Eugene Vilensky
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