Bug#567019: kpartx: multipath partition devices are missing
Guido Günther
agx at sigxcpu.org
Wed Jan 27 21:47:00 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:40:56PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:40:08PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >
> >> That is, 60-kpartx.rules is not present in the initramfs!
> >> No wonder it does not work. :)
> >
> > Weird - I just bootstraped a kvm instance and 60-kpartx.rules ends up in
> > the initramfs fine.
>
> What does put it there? The kpartx package hasn't got an initramfs hook
> for that. I created one for copying the rules file and kpartx_id
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/multipath
> (btw. doesn't that miss a full path specification in the rules file?),
No. /lib/udev is being used.
> but it still isn't enough. I guess the kernel name is dm-0 in my case,
> but there's no /dev/dm-0 node, so
>
> RUN+="/sbin/kpartx -a -p -part /dev/$kernel"
>
> can't really work...
You're running an old version it seems. You should try
0.4.8+git0.761c66f-7. Your 0.4.8-14+lenny2 wo't work with recent
kernels/udev/dm.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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