--- On Mon, 3/4/13, Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> > > The problem is that multipathd wants to create a PID > file under /var (which is at this time readonly). > > This fails and multipathd fails to start. > > It took me a lot of testing and reboots until I managed > to determine this is the actual problem. > > > Hmm. Why? multipathd can happily live without a PID file; > SUSE has been doing this for years (for precisely the same > reason). > Check the SUSE init scripts. Official (from author's website) multipath-tools contain a multipathd that has hardcoded PIDFILE location and there is no runtime option to change its location or disable it. Both manpage and source show this. Maybe SUSE has a modified multipathd with added option to control PIDFILE creation. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
