Bug#667624: multipath-tools: Can't assign multipath aliases via /etc/multipath.conf

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:12:47PM +0200, Matteo Chesi wrote:
> Il 05/04/2012 18:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf ha scritto:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2012 08:55 PM, Matteo Chesi wrote:
> >> Apr 05 17:29:07 | Initialized new bindings file
> >> [/var/lib/multipath/bindings]
> >> Apr 05 17:29:07 | No matching wwid [360050768019001ab2800000000000536]
> >> in bindings file.
> >> Apr 05 17:29:07 | Created new binding [mpath0] for WWID
> >> [360050768019001ab2800000000000536]
> > In your multipath.conf, you had defined /etc/bindings as your file
> > containing the binding details ?
> 
> Yes.
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> > The log says, that it chose /var/lib/multipath/bindings ?
> 
> I don't know why it says so.

The bindings file used to be under /etc but got moved to /var/lib/ since
it's not a config file IIRC.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> > Items to investigate:
> > * Does bindings override aliases?
> > * Does bindings_file setting get overridden/not honored ?
> 
> Let me know if you need my support to investigate these issues.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matteo
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> Matteo Chesi
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