On redhat, there is a script (can't recollect but rc.sysinit, I believe) that creates this without multipathd. You do need multipathd though for renaming/creating/acting on multipath events there after. Thanks, Malahal. Scott Moseman [scmoseman@xxxxxxxxx] wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 5:01 PM, Mike Anderson <andmike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /sanHBA > > > > > mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /sanHBA busy > > > > Are there any dm messages in the dmesg output? > > > > Are you sure dm multipath did not grab the device(s) on boot? > > > > What is the output of multipath -l? > > > > # multipath -l > 30690a018f015191a6472441d1500f057 > [size=4 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"] > \_ round-robin 0 [active] > \_ 1:0:1:0 sdb 8:16 [active] > > I guess that might explain it, huh? However, I disabled the service... > > # service multipathd status > multipathd is stopped > > So I was assuming that it wasn't going to be firing up. Obviously I'm > missing something. > > Thanks! > Scott > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
