On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 09:11:02AM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 21:50 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > > Now, I don't see how this could cause a boot to fail since this is a > > new > > device that isn't getting set up, but I really never test this, > > because > > when we create the initramfs in RedHat based distros, we edit the > > multipath.conf file in it to blacklist all devices except those > > needed > > by the initramfs. > > I'm a bit puzzled. It's against my personcal conviction that the > blacklist must be the same between initrd and root FS. How do you > prevent LVM or other layers grabbing blacklisted devices during > initramfs processing, so that they can't be multipathed any more later? lvm only assembles on the devices necessary to boot in the initramfs also. -Ben > > Martin > > -- > Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107 > SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton > HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
