Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-21 Thread BARROS FERNANDEZ, Carlos
Hello Ritessh Yes, you're right, there is a lot of information and posibilities. I did open the bug cause I couldn't find the reason nor the information of how to stack this. After your guidelines I did test it and find some options. The info was just to add some examples for someone new to do

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Carlos, The thing about these documentations is that there is a lot of combinations. As you must be aware, Linux Storage is stacked up of multiple independent components, tied tightly together to work in unison. This often need a good understanding of each involved stack, as well as the

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-20 Thread BARROS FERNANDEZ, Carlos
Hello Ritesh In another testing I had a boot problem. This time was because the megaraid_sas module was later that the other hba. So /dev/sda was other disk and the initrd drop me into the shell. I did change the filter, now using the internal raid controller directory, and simplify for

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-20 Thread BARROS FERNANDEZ, Carlos
Hi Ritessh. On another server I have a stranger setup :) : 1 LVM over multipath + 1 LVM over mdadm-device and the mdadm-device over multipaths Did had problems because the mdadm-device did not setup the multipath, just the /dev/sdX devices In this case, mdadm was called from udev as soon as a

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-20 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Control: tag -1 +pending Thanks for confirming Carlos. The following has been added and will be part of the next upload. commit 00b79442b9af0c5275880b73b9bae5c68150e2c5 (HEAD -> master) Author: Ritesh Raj Sarraf Date: Mon Dec 20 15:29:43 2021 +0530 Add some documentation about LVM +

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-17 Thread BARROS FERNANDEZ, Carlos
Hello Ritesh. Thanks for your answer. Tried serveral things to make it work, but only a filter in lvm.conf did work. (the pv's were created under multipath, and also did several vgcfgbackup, the pv's did not have any /dev/sd?? written in their sectors) The filter that I put is: filter = [

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Carlos, On Tue, 2021-12-14 at 19:04 +0100, Carlos Barros wrote: > A server was setup with some disks configured in multipath. > The root filesystem is on LVM on internal disk, not configured for > multipath. > > Then build another lvm configuration on those devices > (/dev/mapper/...) > >

Bug#1001710: multipath-tools: booting with lvm over multipath it does not setup devices for lvm

2021-12-14 Thread Carlos Barros
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.8.5-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: carlos.bar...@econocom.com Dear Maintainer, A server was setup with some disks configured in multipath. The root filesystem is on LVM on internal disk, not configured for multipath. Then build another lvm configuration