From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zdenek Kabelac Subject: Re: multipath-0.5.0 still provides broken udev rules Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:58:26 +0200 Message-ID: <571DF852.6030604@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Peter Volkov , dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids On 25.4.2016 12:52, Peter Volkov wrote: > Hi, guys. > > There is a problem: udev does not create partitions for multipath devices in > case I use kpartx.rules provided with multipath sources. I found that udev > always go to kpartx_end after following line of rules: > ENV{DM_TABLE_STATE}!="LIVE", GOTO="kpartx_end" Hi Just curious - what would you want to do with inactive table??? You cannot read/scan such device ? > > There is 8 (!!!) years old thread that discusses this problem: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2007-July/msg00095.html > > So what is the current state? Should we fix udev rules for multipath or should > we create better patch for dmsetup.c? Meanwhile I've copied multipath.rules > from redhat and partitions are created as they should. What is the exact problem you do have/see ? Can you describe in some single repeatable steps a reproducer ? Which distro are you talking about (Fedora ? Debian ??) Have you opened any bugzilla anywhere ? Regard Zdenek