[dm-devel] [PATCH] Disable partitions scan for multipathed devices
Hannes Reinecke
hare at suse.de
Wed Mar 12 12:27:55 UTC 2014
On 03/12/2014 01:23 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:48:56PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> For this I've implemented a new feature 'no_partitions' which
>> just serves as a notifier to kpartx to _not_ create partitions
>> on these devices.
>
> This should be covered by the existing cookie flags (which udev rules
> already use, if you're using udev). It's not a multipath-specific
> problem but can apply to other targets too.
>
Ah.
How? To my knowledge the 'cookies' mechanism is to enable
libdevmapper to wait until udev is done with device creation.
Can you elaborate here?
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare at suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
More information about the dm-devel
mailing list