[dm-devel] Configuring multipath for root device

[Pradipmaya Maharana]

Any comment anyone?

Thanks,
Pradipmaya.


On Jan 17, 2008 12:38 PM, Pradipmaya Maharana <pradipmaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> # ls -al /dev/system/
> total 0
> drwx------  2 root root   80 Jan 16 17:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 6660 Jan 16 17:46 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   23 Jan 16 17:44 root -> /dev/mapper/system-root
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   23 Jan 16 17:44 swap -> /dev/mapper/system-swap
>
> Yes, /dev/system/root and swap are links, as shown above.
>
> About volume labels, I tried assigning label to mount /dev/system/root
> to label-root but it would fail.
> I tried doing it through YaST/partitioner and it failed with the
> following error:
>
> "Failure occurred during following action:
> Setting label on /dev/system/root to label-root.
>
> System error code was : -3024"
>
> Is there any other way to change the label.
>
>
> Further information:
> when I try to run "multipath -v3", it would not create any map , with
> following error
> 222f2000155c11879: set ACT_CREATE (map does not exist)
> 222f2000155c11879: domap (0) failure for create/reload map
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Pradipmaya.
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2008 12:21 PM,  <malahal at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Pradipmaya Maharana [pradipmaya at gmail.com] wrote:
> > >
> > > Let me know if you need any other information.
> > >
> > > Malahal, are you saying that I should mount the "/" and "swap" by
> > > volume label and it should be able to boot fine?
> >
> > What are /dev/system/root and /dev/system/swap? Are they symlinks or do
> > they have same major/minor number of corresponding LVM LVs?
> > Yes, volume labels may work but I never booted SLES with LVM.
> >
> > -Malahal.
> >
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