On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Ulrich David wrote:
> >>sys-fs/multipath-tools-0.4.7-r2 (0.4.8 doesn't work)
> >Could you elaborate on how it doesn't work? What is your SAN hardware?
> My hardware is DS4300 turbo. I have problems running kpartx from
> multipath-tools 0.4.8. It doesn't detect all my partitions...
> running on "dmsetup ls --target multipath".
If your drive is larger than 1TiB, there was a fix that got included
with multipath-tools-0.4.8-r1, so try that first (it's pending
stabilization).

Or sounds like this might be bug #268961 again, that I didn't have
enough info on before.
- Do you see the partitions on top of the multipath device in
  /proc/partitions?
- Can you provide a udev info dump for your multipath device?

> >Upstream LVM2 merged device-mapper into LVM2, that's why the dep has a
> >|| block.
> So, if I install lvm2 I do not need device-mapper package to be
> installed in order to use multipath-tools, right?
Correct.
LVM2 2.02.45 and newer provide device-mapper.

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