From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: root on multipath and dracut Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: <52F8E36C.5040503@redhat.com> References: <52F8D490.8000500@suse.de> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52F8D490.8000500@suse.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Hannes Reinecke , Benjamin Marzinski Cc: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On 02/10/2014 02:30 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi Ben, > > as we're switching to dracut/systemd nowadays I've tried to setup > and enable root on multipath for this, too. > > As you might've seen, I've already added proper systemd support for > multipath-tools, so it should be easy to plug it into dracut. > > Or so I thought. > > As it turns out, dracut is trying to add some RH-specific rules files: > > 40-multipath.rules > 62-multipath.rules > 65-multipath.rules > > which have only _very_ sparse documentation. > Wouldn't it be a good idea to settle on a default set on scripts > here and include those into the multipath-tools repository? > > Cheers, > > Hannes > Currently we only ship /lib/udev/rules.d/62-multipath.rules with device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-56. Gentoo was using 65-multipath.rules and we formerly used 40-multipath.rules. So, basically dracut tries to find any of them to be backwards compatible and cross distro.