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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Add the following to your
multipath.conf file:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ariel <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Erez Zilber<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 28, 2008
10:23 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> device-mapper development<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [dm-devel] multipath
device name</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> Yes, I meant the above. Check if you have any
problems with your<br>
> multipath.conf file. Make sure you enclose "multipath {}" within<br>
> "multipaths {}" block. Run 'multipath -t' and make sure your
changes are<br>
> listed in its output.<br>
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> What is your multipath.conf file?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Problem solved:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>I copied
/usr/share/doc/packages/multipath-tools/multipath.conf.annotated and
uncommented the block with the "red" device. The problem is that I
didn't remove the comments from 'multipaths {' and the '}' at the end of the
block. After uncommenting it, I see /dev/mapper/red.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Any idea about the other question that I had on this
thread (about slow and strange fail over)? Any help will be
appreciated.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Erez<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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