Has anyone moved their multipath-bindings file under /etc or under system
root from /var/lib/multipath/bindings. Our /var is mounted as a separate
filesystem and we are also using "user friendly names". Per
recommendation from IBM and Novell-Support View Content doc - the default
location of the user_friendly_names configuration file is
/var/lib/multipath/bindings. If /var is not located on the system root but
mounted from another partition the bindings file is not available when
setting up multipathing. The multipath-bindings needs to be availabe on
the system root and multipath can find it. This can be done, for example,
by moving the bindings file to: /opt/multipath/bindings (assuming that
/opt is on the system root), and setting the option "bindings_file" in the
defaults section of /etc/multipath.conf, e.g:
defaults {
user_friendly_names yes
bindings_file "/etc/multipath_bindings"
}
After we made the changes we renamed the /var/lib/multipath/bindings to
bindings.old; recycled the server. Once the server was back up, we added
another LUN. We notice multipath recreated another
/var/lib/multipath/bindings and he did not use the /etc/multipath_bindings
file.
Has anyone experienced the same situation when implementing multipath?
Ray Cabanlit
Brown Brothers Harriman
Operating Systems - NJ
[email protected]
Phone: 201-418-6482
Cell: 201-988-1389
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