<div> </div> <div>Anyone got this working on emc powerpath?</div> <div> </div> <div>I remeber seeing somewhere some special configuration to get mounting by label working with multipath devices, but could not find it again.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Luis<BR><BR><B><I>Ricardo Fernandez <Ricardo.Fernandez@quanam.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi people, <BR><BR>Thanks a lot for your answer!<BR>It worked perfectly.<BR><BR>Best regards<BR>Ricardo<BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:Sunil.Mushran@oracle.com] <BR>Sent: viernes, 24 de agosto de 2007 14:26<BR>To: Randy Ramsdell<BR>Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com; Ricardo Fernandez<BR>Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 mount problem at Linux reboot when<BR>device names are non persistent.<BR><BR>While mount-by-uuid will work, mount-by-label
should also work.<BR>The one gotcha in the latter is that it expects the device to be<BR>partitioned. As in, it will not mount-by-label if the device is /dev/sda<BR>but will if the device is /dev/sda1 or sda2, etc.<BR><BR>Randy Ramsdell wrote:<BR>> Ricardo Fernandez wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> Hi,<BR>>> <BR>>> I have the following problem when the servers accessing OCFS2 reboot:<BR><BR>>> as the Linux device names are non persistent, at reboot they usually <BR>>> change, and then OCFS2 can't mount the device because it is expecting<BR><BR>>> a different device name as stated in the fstab file. (it is specified<BR><BR>>> in the format /dev/sdx as the instructions of the OCFS2 installation <BR>>> manual say) If I change the device name to the "new" name, it works <BR>>> fine. But this is not an acceptable solution, as each node should be <BR>>> able to start in a fully automatic way. (without human
intervention)<BR>>> <BR>>> I thought that the purpose of the disk LABEL that I added when <BR>>> formatting the partition with OCFS2 was exactly this. (Am I right?) I<BR><BR>>> changed the fstab to use the LABEL option, and also try to mount it <BR>>> from the command line using the LABEL option but it didn't work. Is <BR>>> there any bug or known issue on this topic. I guess that if I glue <BR>>> the device name with udev it will work, but I really would expect <BR>>> OCF2 to solve this problem (because it is not a new one, and most of <BR>>> the file systems I know can handle it)<BR>>> <BR>>> I would appreciate any help on this topic.<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> Thanks a lot<BR>>> Ricardo<BR>>> <BR>>> I work with: <BR>>> <BR>>> RHEL 4<BR>>> Local SCSI devices<BR>>> External devices locates in an EVA8000 SAN, accessed through a fibre<BR>channel bus. The
OCFS2 file system is on one of these.<BR>>> <BR>>><BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR>>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR>>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>> Do not use label use UUID name and _netdev_ fstab option.<BR>> This is the UUID of a volume we have.<BR>> /dev/disk/by-uuid/be12775a-ec1c-4ed7-a06b-f30a081a0603<BR>><BR>> UUID's are unique and never change so they are ideal for what you are <BR>> describing.<BR>><BR>> Randy Ramsdell<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Ocfs2-users mailing list<BR>> Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users<BR>> <BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ocfs2-users mailing
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