Bug#321002: Breakage due to /var dependency

[Stephen Frost]

Package: multipath-tools
Version: 0.4.2.4-2
Severity: important

Greetings,

  multipathd needs to be run prior to 'mountall.sh', which handles the
  second-pass filesystem mounting.  This means that it can't depend on
  /var being available.  Unfortunately, it appears that it's expecting
  to be able to use /var/cache/multipathd as a ramdisk and when it's
  unable to (because /var/cache doesn't exist), it dies.  This is a
  rather serious problem as it's needed for booting (I believe...).

  An interesting alternative would be to consider just running multipath
  during boot and then running multipathd later on.  This appears to be
  what the initrd setup w/ multipath is doing actually.

  	Thanks,

		Stephen