Thank you for detailed answer Christophe. Ð ÐÑÐ, 09/02/2011 Ð 10:49 +0100, Christophe Varoqui ÐÐÑÐÑ: > On your ubuntu setup, multipath tools picked the default hardware > handler (none, ie 0) whereas on your gentoo setup the hardware handler > is explicitely set for use with your storage device. > > Now 2 choices : > 1/ upgrade multipath-tools > or > 2/ set up your device definition in multipath.conf to override internal > defaults I'll try to upgrade multipath-tools, but as for second choice it looks like following configuration should work: root@btv1:~# cat /etc/multipath.conf defaults { path_checker rdac } blacklist { devnode "^sd[a-b]" } multipaths { multipath { wwid 360080e50001baa46000025834d501798 alias vod path_checker rdac } } I even think that rdac definition in inside multipath is redundant but if I remove it nothing changes. And looking at verbose output it looks like it reads configfile (at least sda and sdb devices are blacklisted and it tells that I have rdac defined in configfile). root@btv1:~# multipath -v3 -ll ram0: device node name blacklisted [...snip...] ram15: device node name blacklisted loop0: device node name blacklisted [...snip...] loop7: device node name blacklisted sda: device node name blacklisted sdb: device node name blacklisted sdc: not found in pathvec sdc: mask = 0x5 sdc: dev_t = 8:32 sdc: size = 27341848576 sdc: subsystem = scsi sdc: vendor = IBM sdc: product = 1746 FAStT sdc: rev = 1070 sdc: h:b:t:l = 0:0:2:1 sdd: not found in pathvec sdd: mask = 0x5 sdd: dev_t = 8:48 sdd: size = 27341848576 sdd: subsystem = scsi sdd: vendor = IBM sdd: product = 1746 FAStT sdd: rev = 1070 sdd: h:b:t:l = 0:0:3:1 md0: device node name blacklisted dm-0: device node name blacklisted ===== paths list ===== uuid hcil dev dev_t pri dm_st chk_st vend/prod/rev 0:0:2:1 sdc 8:32 -1 [undef][undef] IBM ,1746 FAStT 0:0:3:1 sdd 8:48 -1 [undef][undef] IBM ,1746 FAStT params = 0 0 2 1 round-robin 0 1 1 8:32 1000 round-robin 0 1 1 8:48 1000 status = 2 0 0 0 2 1 A 0 1 0 8:32 A 0 E 0 1 0 8:48 A 0 sdc: mask = 0x4 sdc: path checker = rdac (config file default) sdc: state = 2 sdc: mask = 0x8 sdc: getprio = NULL (internal default) sdc: prio = 1 sdd: mask = 0x4 sdd: path checker = rdac (config file default) sdd: state = 4 sdd: mask = 0x8 sdd: getprio = NULL (internal default) sdd: prio = 1 vod (360080e50001baa46000025834d501798) dm-0 IBM ,1746 FASt [size=13T][features=0][hwhandler=0] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][active] \_ 0:0:2:1 sdc 8:32 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled] \_ 0:0:3:1 sdd 8:48 [active][ghost] -- Peter. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel