Bug#586182: multipath-tools: sometimes fails to create /dev/mapper/mpathN devices

[Guido Günther]

Tags 586182 +fixed-upstream
thanks

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:19:00PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> Package: multipath-tools
> Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2
> Severity: normal
> 
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> 
> Sometimes, multipath-tools does not create all the /dev/mapper/mpathN
> devices one is expecting it to create. This seems to occur if there
> more than two multipathed devices.
The issue on this particular system is that the binding file resides on
/var which isn't available early enough for
/etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot.
In that case the paths got assigned new names during each boot which
cases the problem.
A workaround is to use the multipath-tools-boot package so the path
discovery happens in the initramfs with the bindings file available.

The bug is fixed upstream by moving the binding file to /etc.
Cheers,
 -- Guido