[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2console hangs on startup

[Sunil Mushran]

ocfs2console has been obsoleted. Just use the utilities directly.
To detect ocfs2 volumes, use blkid. You can use it to restrict
the lookup paths. Refer its manpage.

On 03/09/2012 06:15 PM, John Major wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hope this is the right place to ask this.
>
> I have set up 2 ubuntu lts machines with an IBM iscsi san. I have set up
> multipathd and ocfs2 and it seems to be working.
>
> The problem is that when I run up ocfs2console it hangs (the console
> app, not the system). Using strace, I can see that it is running through
> all the /dev/sdx devices and loops trying to access the first one in
> 'ghost' state per 'multipath -ll'.
>
> Is there a way to restrict which devices the app looks at as it starts
> to say  /dev/mapper/mpath* since I don't actually want it to access any
> of the /dev/sd.. devices directly?