----- "Christophe Varoqui" <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You could also start with changing the aliases in > /etc/multipath.conf, > run multipath, and reload multipathd config through the CLI or > restart > it altogether (which is not risky if there is no degraded situation). > > Works with recent multipath tools versions at least. > > regards, > cvaroqui > http://www.opensvc.com > > On mer., 2010-02-03 at 14:16 +0000, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > > ----- "--[ UxBoD ]--" <uxbod@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > we have a situation where we need to rename a server and would > also > > > like to change the associate multipath alias. Is this possible > > > without restarting the whole multipath daemon and killing all our > > > other mounted partitions ? The server we need to work on is in a > > > shutdown state so the associated partitions are not active. > > > > > Reading through the documentation if I do: > > > > dmsetup -v status insguest01 > > > > I see the following with the Name being the alias. > > > > Name: insguest01 > > State: ACTIVE > > Read Ahead: 1024 > > Tables present: LIVE > > Open count: 4 > > Event number: 1 > > Major, minor: 253, 4 > > Number of targets: 1 > > UUID: mpath-3600144f0e2824900000049df899b0002 > > > > I can then perform the same command on each of its partitions. If I > wanted to rename this guest's devices to insguest02 would I do: > > > > dmsetup rename insguest01 insguest02 > > > > then update /etc/multipath.conf so that the alias name reflects the > new name at boot time ? and would I need to perform the same operation > on all the partitions as well ? > > Thank you Christophe. We are using device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-30.el5 under CentOS 5.4 X86_64 so I presume we would be okay ? -- Thanks - Phil -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
