During startup libdevmapper checks if udev is running or not. And if it finds udev is _not_ running it'll create the device-nodes internally, regardless on any magic ioctl flags. This results in the occasionally message 'conflicting device node found' in the syslog. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- multipathd/multipathd.service | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/multipathd/multipathd.service b/multipathd/multipathd.service index d5f8606..eb85bee 100644 --- a/multipathd/multipathd.service +++ b/multipathd/multipathd.service @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Description=Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller Before=iscsi.service iscsid.service lvm2-activation-early.service Before=local-fs-pre.target -After=multipathd.socket +After=multipathd.socket systemd-udevd.service DefaultDependencies=no Wants=local-fs-pre.target multipathd.socket blk-availability.service Conflicts=shutdown.target -- 2.6.6 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel