From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: unwanted kpartx partition delimiter persistance Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:43:56 -0800 Message-ID: <20091109214356.GA8671@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20091109211403.GH30590@mtholyoke.edu> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091109211403.GH30590@mtholyoke.edu> 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 Ron Peterson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem w/ a new server. Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.27.26. > > While getting our multipath setup going, we edited > /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_kpartx.rules to change the partition delimiter to > 'quack'. > > That's not the name we want in production, of course, so we changed it > to 'p'. The problem is, on every reboot, the /dev/mapper (and > /dev/disk/...) names come up with the old delimiter - 'quack'. > > If I run 'multipath -F', and 'multipath -v2', then the device names are > created as we'd expect them to. > > We have grep'd for the string 'quack' everywhere it we can think of, and > it's nowhere to be found. There is one kpartx config file in > /etc/udev/rules.d only. What could cause the old name to persist like > this? > I do not have this distro available so my information may not be that useful. but.. It sounds like there is a copy of the old rules in your initrd. Did you update your initrd post adding "quack" and if so did you run it again after removing "quack"? -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com