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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Any chance you guys have looked into this problem? Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Artem Danielov <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 16, 2015 15:02<br>
<b>To:</b> 'dm-devel@redhat.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> multipathd removing DM devices that don't belong to it<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for an advice on whether this is an expected behavior or a bug.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-77.el7.x86_64<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When multipathd service starts it will remove any DM devices with multipath target,
<u>even if the underlying devices are blacklisted</u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are trying to use dmsetup directly to implement custom multipath management logic separate from multipathd. But unfortunately if multipathd is present and enabled it removes DM devices with multipath target that we create.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is this a bug?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Artem Danielov | Chief Technology Officer | FlashGrid Inc. |
<a href="mailto:artem@flashgrid.io">artem@flashgrid.io</a> | +1-503-568-5249<o:p></o:p></p>
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