November 24, 2008; Managing Multipath I/O; A.2.1 Managing Multipath I/O; Using Uuids To Mount Devices - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 05-15-2009 Administration Manual

A.2 November 24, 2008
Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.
Section A.2.1, "Managing Multipath I/O," on page 126
Section A.2.2, "Using UUIDs to Mount Devices," on page 126

A.2.1 Managing Multipath I/O

The following changes were made to this section:
Location
Section 5.2.7, "Supported Storage Arrays
for Multipathing," on page 47
"Applying Changes Made to the /etc/
multipath.conf File" on page 58
A.2.2 Using UUIDs to Mount Devices
The following change was made to this section:
Location
Section 3.2.1, "Using UUIDs to Assemble
or Activate File System Devices," on
page 32
A.3 June 10, 2008
Updates were made to the following section. The changes are explained below.
Section A.3.1, "Managing Multipath I/O," on page 126

A.3.1 Managing Multipath I/O

The following changes were made to this section:
Location
Section 5.3.3, "Using mdadm for
Multipathed Devices," on page 51
"Verifying the Setup in the etc/
multipath.conf File" on page 56
126 SLES 10 SP2: Storage Administration Guide
Change
After you modify the
/etc/multipath.conf
run to re-create the INITRD on your system, then
mkinitrd
reboot in order for the changes to take effect.
Change
The device ID assigned by the manufactuer for a drive never
changes, no matter where the device is mounted, so it can
always be found at boot. The UUID is a property of the
filesystem and can change if you reformat the drive.
Change
For information about modifying the
file, see Section 5.2.3, "Using LVM2 on Multipath Devices," on
page 46.
Use the -v3 option to show the full path list.
file, you must
/etc/lvm/lvm.conf