* Re: multipath-tools: symlinks and block devices in /dev/mapper
@ 2015-08-07 12:23 Xose Vazquez Perez
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From: Xose Vazquez Perez @ 2015-08-07 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sean Stewart, device-mapper development
Sean Stewart wrote:
> I've seen a couple of cases on distros that use system (RHEL7 and SLES12) where after the
> system boots, if you go to /dev/mapper, you will see the mpath entries are a mix of symlinks
> to the respective /dev/dm- device, and others are a block device.
It was reported to SuSE time ago, and it was fixed recently.
I did not see this bug in CentOS_7 1503+updates.
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* multipath-tools: symlinks and block devices in /dev/mapper
@ 2015-08-06 21:32 Stewart, Sean
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From: Stewart, Sean @ 2015-08-06 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dm-devel
Hi all,
I've seen a couple of cases on distros that use system (RHEL7 and SLES12) where after the
system boots, if you go to /dev/mapper, you will see the mpath entries are a mix of symlinks
to the respective /dev/dm- device, and others are a block device.
After some investigation, it looks like the symlink is created by udev, and the block device
file gets created with the call to dm_lib_exit(), from the multipath command. Of course, if
one has already created its device file, the other can't.
So I'm wondering why do we have both mechanism to create /dev/mapper/ links and files? It
doesn't really hurt anything, but I think it's strange that it's not consistent.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Sean Stewart
Linux Software Engineer
Hyperscale Storage Group
NetApp
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