From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: NIC and HBA based multipathing Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:09:25 -0800 Message-ID: <20071107050925.GA25156@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <342d47870710301211y42200594u444b7af7ae870e7@mail.gmail.com> <472A2EA5.8050609@cs.wisc.edu> <342d47870711011321j1ff065c3jb54589988f3c499f@mail.gmail.com> <20071101215726.GB11002@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <342d47870711061308p77655083y7ac30a9e9e2a3b72@mail.gmail.com> <20071106222043.GA23178@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <342d47870711061433h6dce42baj705aca5ae7baa466@mail.gmail.com> <20071106230157.GA23800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <342d47870711061746s64daeaa0wcb6adf060506686c@mail.gmail.com> <20071107025935.GA22697@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071107025935.GA22697@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Scott Moseman , device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids malahal@us.ibm.com wrote: > On redhat, there is a script (can't recollect but rc.sysinit, I believe) > that creates this without multipathd. You do need multipathd though for > renaming/creating/acting on multipath events there after. > Yes it is rc.sysinit that calls /sbin/multipath.static if nompath was not specified on the cmdline and /etc/multipath.conf exists. One could return the /etc/multipath.conf to its original state and blacklist everything which would be why one would not see this behavior on a fresh no mpath install. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com