[dm-devel] [PATCH] Tolerate modprobe failures in multipathd.service

[Anthony Ryan]

When these modules are built statically into the kernel, modprobe
will fail and prevent the service from being started. By making this
line non-fatal, on such systems the service is still able to be
started.
---
 multipathd/multipathd.service | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/multipathd/multipathd.service b/multipathd/multipathd.service
index e3d6f91..d26577f 100644
--- a/multipathd/multipathd.service
+++ b/multipathd/multipathd.service
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Conflicts=shutdown.target
 Type=notify
 NotifyAccess=main
 LimitCORE=infinity
-ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe -a scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac
dm-multipath
+ExecStartPre=-/sbin/modprobe -a scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac
dm-multipath
 ExecStart=/sbin/multipathd -d -s
 ExecReload=/sbin/multipathd reconfigure

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2.11.0