Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-28 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 03:07 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On 02/27/2011 04:26 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: ok, let me restate the issue, it is actually quite simple: During boot, after multipath assembled its devices, I see the /dev/mapper multipath devices (which is fine) but the

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-28 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 14:34 +0100, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 03:07 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On 02/27/2011 04:26 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: ok, let me restate the issue, it is actually quite simple: During boot, after multipath assembled its devices, I see

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-28 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 02/28/2011 08:05 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: If I do the above steps on a lenny system (with otherwise identical configuration) I get the same results except that after step 4 the /dev/disk/by/uuid symlinks point to the /dev/dm-x devices (as it should be). If I boot the squeeze system (by

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-28 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 20:23 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On 02/28/2011 08:05 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: If I do the above steps on a lenny system (with otherwise identical configuration) I get the same results except that after step 4 the /dev/disk/by/uuid symlinks point to the /dev/dm-x

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-28 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 02/28/2011 08:47 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: Ha! I upgraded to dmsetup from sid. Now it works :) I'm glad that your issue is resolved. Any ideas what is the delta of dmsetup between squeeze and sid? I think this bug should still be assigned to dmsetup targeting the squeeze version. -- Ritesh

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-28 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 20:56 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On 02/28/2011 08:47 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: Ha! I upgraded to dmsetup from sid. Now it works :) I'm glad that your issue is resolved. Any ideas what is the delta of dmsetup between squeeze and sid? I think this bug should

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-27 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 12:02 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: severity 614353 normal thanks On 02/25/2011 03:26 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: I switched to the /dev/mapper devices for booting as you suggested. that works. interestingly, after the boot has finished, the /dev/disk/by-uuid

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 02/27/2011 04:26 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: ok, let me restate the issue, it is actually quite simple: During boot, after multipath assembled its devices, I see the /dev/mapper multipath devices (which is fine) but the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks point to one of the underlying iscsi

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-26 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
severity 614353 normal thanks On 02/25/2011 03:26 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: I switched to the /dev/mapper devices for booting as you suggested. that works. interestingly, after the boot has finished, the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks are created correctly. Therefore, the only problem is

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-25 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
Hi there, I switched to the /dev/mapper devices for booting as you suggested. that works. interestingly, after the boot has finished, the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks are created correctly. Therefore, the only problem is that they are not created during boot. This is clearly a bug. I do not

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello, On 02/22/2011 05:16 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: Persistence is not available for devices everywhere in the kernel. /dev/sd[??] Not persistent. They can change of reboots based on which one gets discovered first /dev/dm-* Not persistent. These are device mapper devices with the same

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-22 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:28:30PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [..snip..] I have taken up the multipath-tools maintenance very recently. I can't really comment on what was in Lenny. But I can talk on multipath best practices. In multipath, you can disable user_friendly_names, which will

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-21 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 01:31 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Hello, In your setup, you've mentioned iscsi-root. But are you using multipath on top of it? sure. If yes, why are you not using the multipath guaranteed /dev/mapper/* entries? I guess I could do that, but this would be a

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-21 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
Package: multipath-tools-boot Version: 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-9 Severity: normal Hi, I have a bunch of virtual (kvm) lenny machines, booting with iscsi-root. An update to squeeze consistently breaks booting, because the /dev/disk/by-uuid symbolic links do not point to the correct mpath devices, e.g.

Bug#614353: multipath-tools-boot: upgrade to squeeze breaks machines with root on iscsi

2011-02-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello, In your setup, you've mentioned iscsi-root. But are you using multipath on top of it? If yes, why are you not using the multipath guaranteed /dev/mapper/* entries? On 02/21/2011 03:43 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: Package: multipath-tools-boot Version: 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-9 Severity: normal