Bug#580972: multipath-tools: unnecessary call to multipath in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_multipath.rules

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Hi,

On 18:08 Mon 10 May     , Guido Günther wrote:
> This is also necessary for the initramfs since we don't run multipathd
> there. Testing if multipathd is runnning looks like a good option
> though. It'd be even nicer if we could only run that rule if the former
> one fails.

Actually, since there is already an initramfs-tools hook, how about adding a
rule only specific to the initramfs, omitting the socket rule altogether, and
then keeping only the socket rule in the system's /etc/udev/rules.d/? IIRC,
udev is restarted during S, so I suppose it loads all rules from scratch.

> 
> > One final note: multipathd uevent handling is broken with kernel 2.6.32, fixed
> > in a backwards compatible way upstream with commit
> > 7fa7affc3d23dd9dc906804d22a61144bca9f9b9 (already present in squeeze/sid).
> > I know this is more of a wishlist item, but please backport the fix if possible
> > to make lenny's multipathd usable with newer kernels.
> That's a different bug only affecting Lenny. Since we might end up
> fixing #580956. However having this mixed up in another report almost
> makes sure it gets lost ;)

You are right, I filed this as a separate bugreport under #581190.

> Cheers,
>  -- Guido

Thank you,
Apollon