On mar, 2005-08-02 at 15:02 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Package: multipath-tools > Version: 0.4.2.4-2 > Severity: important > > Greetings, > > multipathd needs to be run prior to 'mountall.sh', which handles the > second-pass filesystem mounting.
Not really. We had that discussion already with pcaulfied. The daemon is only needed for resiliency against *multiple* paths failures (flip/flop scenarii). Such failures happening during a system bootup is not necessarily important to care about. > This means that it can't depend on > /var being available. Unfortunately, it appears that it's expecting > to be able to use /var/cache/multipathd as a ramdisk and when it's > unable to (because /var/cache doesn't exist), it dies. This is a > rather serious problem as it's needed for booting (I believe...). > FYI, the ramdisk thing is gone in the 0.4.5 branch. Along with the path-cache-file in /var/cache. > An interesting alternative would be to consider just running multipath > during boot and then running multipathd later on. This appears to be > what the initrd setup w/ multipath is doing actually. > Yes, agreed. Regards, -- christophe varoqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
