[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#598773: Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:20:47PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 00:07 +0530 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
> > On Friday 01 Oct 2010 23:12:23 Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> > > > BTW, why does multipath + iSCSI Root need multiple paths ? One single
> > > > path  should suffice.
> > > 
> > > If this single path fails, the system won't boot any longer.
> >
> > Are you using this config (that of multipath iSCSI Paths for the Root LUN + DM 
> > Multipath) along with the proposed patch ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Even the multipathd daemon will not be available in initramfs.
> 
> There's multipath-tools-boot, which makes multipathd and the required
> kernel modules available in the initramfs.
...which doesn't use /sbin/multipathd at the moment but only does an
initial path discovery using /sbin/multipath. It would probably be nicer
to use multipathd from the start though since this would solve a lot of
problems (#545079, #580972).
 -- Guido