On Wednesday 14 January 2009 08:33:38 am Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I do present 8 luns to the cluster. For each lun there are 4 ways through > > the SAN that can be used. Therefore I have devices like /dev/sdaa > > /dev/sdab and so on. The output of multipath -ll shows some disks with 4 > > paths, some with three, some only with two. In the output of multipath > > -ll only disks with three letters are shown e.g. /dev/sda. > > when I run e.g. /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdaa, then it outputs one > > of the configured ID's that I already have in /etc/multipath.conf. > > > > How can I add these disks to the multipath failover? > > > > I'm on SLES10 sp2. > > Have you enabled udev? > No, it's not on by default. Don't ask. yes, udevd runs: service boot.udev status Checking for udevd: running Here the beginning of my /etc/multipath.conf file: defaults { udev_dir /dev path_grouping_policy multibus getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" prio "alua" user_friendly_names yes default_features "0" } blacklist { devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*|sda" } multipaths { multipath { ... } } this version of the multipath tools is installed: multipath-tools-0.4.7-34.40 regards Sebastian > > Cheers, > > Hannes -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel