From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: multipathd.init
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:22:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050410192200.GM12752@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050401211902.GL14307@agk.surrey.redhat.com>
On 2005-04-01T22:19:02, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:09:04PM +0200, christophe varoqui wrote:
> > Do we really want to do complicated things to close that window ? I
> > would guess not.
>
> In other words, if the paths can't survive the window between initrd
> running and init scripts completing, the machine doesn't deserve to boot.
>
> And if you want the daemon in single-user mode, you can start it by hand.
>
> Fair point.
>
> So is there ever a requirement to run the daemon while /var is read-only?
We ran into the same problem, and just decided to invoke /sbin/multipath
once during the boot/ sequence, and then start the daemon in the
runlevel itself.
Note that LSB apparently also suggests that no unneeded daemons are
running in single-user mode; but I couldn't find that detailed anywhere
else.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-01 20:40 multipathd.init Alasdair G Kergon
2005-04-01 21:09 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-01 21:19 ` multipathd.init Alasdair G Kergon
2005-04-01 21:25 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-03 9:43 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-03 19:59 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-03 20:02 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-04 20:52 ` multipathd.init Alasdair G Kergon
2005-04-04 22:08 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-04 21:15 ` multipathd.init Alasdair G Kergon
2005-04-04 22:14 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-04 23:06 ` multipathd.init christophe varoqui
2005-04-10 19:22 ` multipathd.init Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-10 19:22 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
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2005-04-01 21:13 multipathd.init Igor Feoktistov
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