Bug#489850: multipath-tools-boot: fails to boot from a slow devices

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Thu Jul 24 06:31:27 UTC 2008


Hi Janusz,
since Lenny is about to freeze and I won't be near a MP machind for more
than a week i'd be great if you could help out a bit.

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:58:34AM +0200, Janusz Dziemidowicz wrote:
> I think, that /sbin/multipath shouldn't be ran only once during the system
> start, but it should be triggered whenever a new device is discovered
> (since initrd will wait for a root device to appear this would work nicely).
> As a quick workaround I've added the following line:
> echo 'ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", RUN+="/sbin/multipath"' > $DESTDIR/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_multipath.rules
> to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/multipath and I've rebuilt initramfs.
> This fixes the problem for me.
Does:
	ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", RUN+="/sbin/multipath -v0 %M:%m"
also work as udev rule?
Cheers,
 -- Guido





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