Hi, Is there a way to control how a dm- # devices created? e.g by udev or multipath? Let say, I wanted to have my dm- devices created for multipath devices to start only on dm-7 to dm-9, instead of using lower numbered dm-[0-8] as it's been mapped to a different lun. Is this possible? ########## udev logs on dm-# creation ############ Nov 27 11:04:51 SERVER udev[2514]: creating device node '/dev/dm-1' Nov 27 11:04:51 SERVER udev[2511]: creating device node '/dev/dm-0' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4896]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 4 applied, 'sdb' becomes 'dm-2' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4896]: creating device node '/dev/dm-2' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4948]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 4 applied, 'sdr' becomes 'dm-2' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4948]: creating device node '/dev/dm-2' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4899]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 5 applied, 'sdc' becomes 'dm-3' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4899]: creating device node '/dev/dm-3' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4902]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 6 applied, 'sdd' becomes 'dm-4' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4902]: creating device node '/dev/dm-4' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4905]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 7 applied, 'sde' becomes 'dm-5' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4905]: creating device node '/dev/dm-5' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4960]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 8 applied, 'sdv' becomes 'dm-6' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4960]: creating device node '/dev/dm-6' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4951]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 5 applied, 'sds' becomes 'dm-3' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4951]: creating device node '/dev/dm-3' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4908]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 8 applied, 'sdf' becomes 'dm-6' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4908]: creating device node '/dev/dm-6' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4957]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 7 applied, 'sdu' becomes 'dm-5' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4954]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules' at line 6 applied, 'sdt' becomes 'dm-4' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4954]: creating device node '/dev/dm-4' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4957]: creating device node '/dev/dm-5' Nov 27 11:05:05 SERVER udev[4929]: creating device node '/dev/sdm' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24273]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, added symlink 'mpath/%c' <30>Nov 27 11:06:03 udev[24273]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, 'dm-2' becomes '%k' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24273]: creating device node '/dev/dm-2' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24320]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, added symlink 'mpath/%c' <30>Nov 27 11:06:03 udev[24320]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, 'dm-3' becomes '%k' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24320]: creating device node '/dev/dm-3' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24455]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, added symlink 'mpath/%c' <30>Nov 27 11:06:03 udev[24455]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, 'dm-5' becomes '%k' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24453]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, added symlink 'mpath/%c' <30>Nov 27 11:06:03 udev[24453]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, 'dm-4' becomes '%k' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24455]: creating device node '/dev/dm-5' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24453]: creating device node '/dev/dm-4' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24464]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules' at line 3 applied, 'dm-6' becomes '%k' Nov 27 11:06:03 SERVER udev[24464]: creating device node '/dev/dm-6' ########## Udev rules ################################## [root@SERVER ~]# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-local.rules # # LUN re-ordering fix # KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="360060e8005441c000000441c0000000f", NAME="dm-2" KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="360060e8005441c000000441c0000001f", NAME="dm-3" KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="360060e8005441c000000441c0000002f", NAME="dm-4" KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="360060e8005441c000000441c0000003f", NAME="dm-5" KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="360060e8005441c000000441c0000004f", NAME="dm-6" # # /oracle # KERNEL="sd*", BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", RESULT="360060e8005441c000000441c00000704", NAME="mapper/orabin" ################## Multipath udev rules ############################################################ [root@SERVER ~]# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules # multipath wants the devmaps presented as meaninglful device names # so name them after their devmap name KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/mpath_get_name %M %m", RESULT="?*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="mpath/%c" KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/kpartx_get_name %M %m", RESULT="?*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="mpath/%c" ############## Created devices ################### [root@SERVER ~]# ls -l /dev/mpath total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 27 11:06 TR00DATA01 -> ../dm-2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 27 11:06 TR00FRA01 -> ../dm-3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 27 11:06 TR01DATA01 -> ../dm-5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 27 11:06 TROCR101 -> ../dm-6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 27 11:06 TROCR201 -> ../dm-4 ############### multipath.conf ########### [root@SERVERrules.d]# grep -v ^# /etc/multipath.conf | grep -v ^$ defaults { polling_interval 5 path_grouping_policy multibus getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" user_friendly_names no } devnode_blacklist { wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00001059 wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000725 wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000091e wwid 36005076b060890800fc5ab8099ad80c2 wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000038 wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000707 wwid 36005076b060890800fc5ab8099ad80c2 wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000000f wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000001f wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000002f wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000003f wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000004f wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000704 devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*" } multipaths { multipath { wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000131 #alias yellow alias TROCR201 path_grouping_policy multibus path_checker readsector0 path_selector "round-robin 0" failback immediate rr_weight priorities no_path_retry 5 uid 200 gid 57267 mode 0660 } multipath { wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000127 #alias red alias TROCR101 path_grouping_policy multibus path_checker readsector0 path_selector "round-robin 0" failback immediate rr_weight priorities no_path_retry 5 uid 200 gid 57267 mode 0660 } multipath { wwid 360060e8015259e000001259e00003500 #alias white alias TR01DATA01 path_grouping_policy multibus path_checker readsector0 path_selector "round-robin 0" failback immediate rr_weight priorities no_path_retry 5 uid 200 gid 57267 mode 0660 } multipath { wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c0000001a #alias blue alias TR00FRA01 path_grouping_policy multibus path_checker readsector0 path_selector "round-robin 0" failback immediate rr_weight priorities no_path_retry 5 uid 200 gid 57267 mode 0660 } multipath { wwid 360060e8005441c000000441c00000706 #alias orange alias TR00DATA01 path_grouping_policy multibus path_checker readsector0 path_selector "round-robin 0" failback immediate rr_weight priorities no_path_retry 5 uid 200 gid 57267 mode 0660 } } devices { device { vendor "HITACHI" product "DF.*" path_grouping_policy group_by_prio prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_hds_modular %d" path_checker "readsector0" getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s" failback immediate } } verbosity 6 [root@SERVERrules.d]# TIA, lupin -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel