[dm-devel] Issue with setting uid/gid/mode in multipath.conf

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:25 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> After adding this, I do a "multipath -F" following by "multipath" (or
> multipath -F followed by /etc/init.d/multipathd restart), I see the
> attributes are set properly on the device.
> 
> I reboot the system, the device is created (under /dev/mapper) but
> attributes are not set as defined in the multipath.conf file.
> 
> Have you seen this issue ? 
> 
> I am using RHEL 5.3 ga version (kernel and tools).
> 
> I am not booting from a multipath device (IOW, there is no
> multipath.conf in initrd).

Hi Chandra,

I've seen problems with this as well. In my testing the setting of the
UID/GID is unreliable - in around one of five runs the uid/gid take the
default instead of the configured value.

I'm intending to open a Red Hat BZ for this problem today.

Regards,
Bryn.