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From: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@gmail.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] multipath: systemd unit file
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:04:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314860671.14056.83.camel@lapoo.opensvc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5F24DE.50004@suse.de>

> > +[Unit]
> > +Description=Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller
> > +Before=iscsi.service iscsid.service
> > +After=syslog.target
> > +
> > +[Service]
> > +Type=forking
> > +PIDFile=/var/run/multipathd.pid
> > +ExecStart=/sbin/multipathd
> > +ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
> > +#ExecStop=/path/to/scrip delete-me if not necessary
> > +
> > +[Install]
> > +WantedBy=multi-user.target
> >
> Hmm. First of all, I'm trying to get rid of the PID file, as with it 
> it's quite hard to start multipathing when /var/run isn't mounted.
> Plus it's not actually needed; everything can be done via multipathd 
> -k nowadays.
> 
Agreed

> So may I suggest to use
> ExecReload=/sbin/multipathd -k'reconfigure'
> 
Or even:
ExecReload=multipathd reconfigure

Regards,
-- 
Christophe Varoqui
OpenSVC - Tools to scale
http://www.opensvc.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-01  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-01  3:00 [PATCH] multipath: systemd unit file Benjamin Marzinski
2011-09-01  6:23 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-09-01  7:04   ` Christophe Varoqui [this message]
2011-09-01  7:11     ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-09-01 17:08     ` [PATCH v2] " Benjamin Marzinski
2011-09-01 14:46   ` [PATCH] " Benjamin Marzinski

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