[dm-devel] NIC and HBA based multipathing

[Scott Moseman]

On Nov 13, 2007 10:52 AM, Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > # ls -l /dev/sd* | grep -v sda
> > brw-------  1 root root 8, 16 Nov  7 14:43 /dev/sdb
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 17 Nov  7 14:43 /dev/sdb1
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 33 Nov  7 14:45 /dev/sdc1
>
> I can use 'mknod sdc b 8 32' to generate a new /dev/sdc, which I can
> fdisk and the data looks good, but once I reboot the /dev/sdc device
> is once again removed (or not re-created, whichever the case may be).
>

Does anyone know why the /dev/sdc device might not get created on
boot?  Is this something that the iSCSI initiator should handle?  The
operating system?

Thanks,
Scott