From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dharmesh Kamdar <kamdard71@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: UDEV with DM-MULTIPATH issue in RHEL 5.1....
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:48:10 -0800 (PST)
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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. But since the "dm-X" is NOT
persistent, Red Hat recommends NOT to use that and
recommends to use /dev/mapper/mpathX instead as per
this article
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_96_11196.shtm

But specifying /dev/mapper/<ALIAS> did not work for
us.

Regards,
Dharmesh.


--- malahal@us.ibm.com wrote:

> The kernel names of DM devices show up as /dev/dm-X
> where X is some
> integer. The /dev/mapper/XXX are created by the
> DM/MULTIPATH software
> without any help from udev as far as I know.
>=20
> So, use dm-X pattern instead. It may work.
>=20
> --Malahal.
>=20
> Dharmesh Kamdar [kamdard71@yahoo.com] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > The UDEV rules are as follows:
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/51-oracle-raw.rules
> > ACTION=3D=3D"add", KERNEL=3D"/dev/mpath/OCR1p1",
> > RUN+=3D"/bin/raw /dev/raw/rawX %N"
> > ACTION=3D=3D"add", KERNEL=3D"/dev/mpath/OCR2p1",
> > RUN+=3D"/bin/raw /dev/raw/rawX %N"
> > ACTION=3D=3D"add", KERNEL=3D"/dev/mpath/VOTE1p1",
> > RUN+=3D"/bin/raw /dev/raw/rawX %N"
> > ACTION=3D=3D"add", KERNEL=3D"/dev/mpath/VOTE2p1",
> > RUN+=3D"/bin/raw /dev/raw/rawX %N"
> > ACTION=3D=3D"add", KERNEL=3D"/dev/mpath/VOTE3p1",
> > RUN+=3D"/bin/raw /dev/raw/rawX %N"
> > ~                                                =20
>   =20
> > 2) /etc/udev/rules.d/99-raw.rules
> > #-------------------------#
>=20
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>=20



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