On mer, 2005-06-22 at 12:21 -0400, goggin, edward wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:58:53 +0200 > christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx> wrote > > > Now you also have the CLI facility to remove checkers while keeping the > > daemon online. That or restarting the daemon or sending a SIGHUP (not > > implemented right now) seem legitimate to me when an admin changes a > > config file. Isn't it ? > > Yes, I like the SIGHUP idea best. I'm not sure what you mean by > "CLI facility to remove checkers". > You should check out the git head and see the recent changes in the log. > > > > > > An invocation of "multipath -F" did cleanup device files in > > /dev on my Red > > > Hat AS 4 host > > > but an invocation of "dmsetup remove <map-name>" did not. > > I was loath to > > > experiment > > > with "dmsetup remove_all" on my Red Hat host since my root > > device on that > > > host is on > > > a device mapper LVM2 logical volume. Otherwise, I suspect > > that this command > > > would > > > fail to clean up device files in the same way "dmsetup > > remove_all" failed. > > > > > I'll wait for you to pin down this problem. > > I was hoping Alasdair or Lars would comment first :)) > I also commited an enhancement to the map removal logic : Layered partitions (created by kpartx) increase the bottom map usage, preventing its removal. The patch also removes unpinned partitions. May be you were hit by this. > -- > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx>
