Hello: Earlier this week I posted the problem I was having with PowerPath and RHEL 5.2. So I decided to use device-mapper-multipath. For the most part things work fine, but I have run into a little problem. The SAN is an EMC Clariion. When I set things up, commented out the blacklist in multipath.conf and added user_friendly_name yes in the default section, enabled multipathd and started it, it saw the SAN LUNS and created /dev/mpath/mpath0 - /dev/mpath/mpath3. I did pvcreate and vgcreate using the /dev/mpath/mpath? names. Created Logical Volumes, all with no problems. Then later I rebooted the system just to make sure everything would show up as it should, basically it did, except for one thing. The names in /dev/mpath are now the WWID. The LVM finds the Volume Group and activates it, but when you do certain commands the WWID are shown instead of /dev/mpath/mpath0 - /dev/mpath/mpath3. Because there is support built-in for EMC, I did not have to create a devices section for EMC in multipath.conf. So my question is, because of this, is the default section ignored? If does this mean I have to define a devices section for EMC with the use_friendly_name option in it? Note: I have not added anything in modprobe.conf, but there are several dm_* modules that get loaded. Thanks: Jack Allen -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list