Verified successfully on both xenial-proposed and yakkety-proposed. The test result can refer the link [1], and I refer the link [2] to set up the test env.
Before applying the patch we can see: Feb 16 08:52:45 juju-zhhuabj-machine-9 systemd[13815]: dev-disk-by \x2did-scsi\x2d360000000000000000e00000000010001.device: Dev dev-disk-by \x2did-scsi\x2d360000000000000000e00000000010001.device appeared twice with different sysfs paths /sys/devices/platform/host13/session12/target13:0:0/13:0:0:1/block/sda and /sys/devices/virtual/block/dm-0 After applying the patch we can see: Feb 16 09:06:10 juju-zhhuabj-machine-9 systemd-udevd[21289]: conflicting device node '/dev/mapper/360000000000000000e00000000010001' found, link to '/dev/dm-0' will not be created [1] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24006257/ [2] https://gist.github.com/niedbalski/ae85dac1a3ea0b82ad05 ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags added: verification-xenial-done verification-yakkety-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1621340 Title: [SRU]'multipath -r' causes /dev/mapper/<wwid> being removed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/1621340/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs