hi all, i've configured multipath on a linux box and i'm getting these messages on syslog: May 30 10:50:05 mail-1 udevd-work[25148]: rename(/dev/disk/by- id/wwn-0x6006016052b022002e770b609680e011.udev-tmp, /dev/disk/by- id/wwn-0x6006016052b022002e770b609680e011) failed: No such file or directory and sometimes after a path failure, the different paths get different scsi names, /proc/partitions shows in that case: 8 16 838860800 sdb 8 32 849582720 sdc 8 80 838860800 sdf 8 96 849582720 sdg 252 3 849582720 dm-3 252 4 838860800 dm-4 8 208 838860800 sdn 8 224 849582720 sdo 65 0 849582720 sdq 8 240 838860800 sdp and then multipath gets crazy: May 25 12:26:51 mail-1 multipathd: sdh: emc_clariion_checker: sending query command failed ... i guess i should tell udev to asign persistant names using uuid? what's the right way to address this problem? this is my config: root@mail-1:~# multipath -ll backup (36006016052b022009cd7f2aeaf80e011) dm-3 DGC ,RAID 5 [size=810G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=1 emc] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active] \_ 3:0:1:1 sdg 8:96 [active][ready] \_ 4:0:0:1 sde 8:64 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 3:0:0:1 sdc 8:32 [active][ready] \_ 4:0:1:1 sdi 8:128 [active][ready] mail (36006016052b022002e770b609680e011) dm-4 DGC ,RAID 5 [size=800G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=1 emc] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active] \_ 4:0:0:0 sdd 8:48 [active][ready] \_ 3:0:1:0 sdf 8:80 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 3:0:0:0 sdb 8:16 [active][ready] \_ 4:0:1:0 sdh 8:112 [active][ready] root@mail-1:~# cat /etc/multipath.conf # blacklist { devnode "sda" devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*" devnode "^hd[a-z][[0-9]*]" devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*[p[0-9]*]" } defaults { user_friendly_names no } devices { device { vendor "DGC" product "*" path_grouping_policy group_by_prio getuid_callout "/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/%n" prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_emc /dev/%n" hardware_handler "1 emc" no_path_retry 300 path_checker emc_clariion failback immediate } } multipaths { multipath { wwid 36006016052b022002e770b609680e011 alias mail } multipath { wwid 36006016052b022009cd7f2aeaf80e011 alias backup } } thanks in advance! -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel