On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 12:52 +0100, brem belguebli wrote: > Hi, > > see man 5 lvm.conf there is an option called preferred_names which is > well explained > > It'll instruct lvm to use the preferred_names you configured in the > lvm.conf file if they exist > > ie : preferred_names = "/dev/mpath/" will use /dev/mpath/XXX instead > of /dev/mapper/XXX It's best not to use the symlinks in /dev/mpath - they are not always reliable. Use the device nodes created in /dev/mapper instead. Regards, Bryn. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/