From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brem belguebli Subject: Re: bindings file; rename WWID to mpath alias Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:00:14 +0200 Message-ID: <1272322814.16254.14.camel@localhost> References: <4BD5F07A.7040005@sandia.gov> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BD5F07A.7040005@sandia.gov> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids 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 > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel