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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-cluster@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] clvm/lvm2/device-mapper
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:54:27
Message-Id: robbat2-20091101T195014-438846437Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-cluster] clvm/lvm2/device-mapper by Ulrich David
1 On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Ulrich David wrote:
2 > >>sys-fs/multipath-tools-0.4.7-r2 (0.4.8 doesn't work)
3 > >Could you elaborate on how it doesn't work? What is your SAN hardware?
4 > My hardware is DS4300 turbo. I have problems running kpartx from
5 > multipath-tools 0.4.8. It doesn't detect all my partitions...
6 > running on "dmsetup ls --target multipath".
7 If your drive is larger than 1TiB, there was a fix that got included
8 with multipath-tools-0.4.8-r1, so try that first (it's pending
9 stabilization).
10
11 Or sounds like this might be bug #268961 again, that I didn't have
12 enough info on before.
13 - Do you see the partitions on top of the multipath device in
14 /proc/partitions?
15 - Can you provide a udev info dump for your multipath device?
16
17 > >Upstream LVM2 merged device-mapper into LVM2, that's why the dep has a
18 > >|| block.
19 > So, if I install lvm2 I do not need device-mapper package to be
20 > installed in order to use multipath-tools, right?
21 Correct.
22 LVM2 2.02.45 and newer provide device-mapper.
23
24 --
25 Robin Hugh Johnson
26 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
27 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-cluster] clvm/lvm2/device-mapper Ulrich David <david.ulrich@×××××.ch>