[ovirt-users] Re: Unclear how to add local (POSIX) storage

On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 06:31:52PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > This is expected on oVirt, our multipath configuration is intentionally grabbing > any device that multipath can work with, even if the device only has one path. > The motivation is to be able to configure a system when only one path is > available (maybe you have an hba/network/server issue), and once the other > paths are available the system will use them transparently. > > To avoid this issue with local devices, you need to blacklist the device. > > Add this file: > > $ cat /etc/multipath/conf.d/local.conf > blacklist { > wwid "QEMU HARDDISK" > } Thanks - for the mailing list record the syntax that worked for me is: # cat /etc/multipath/conf.d/local.conf blacklist { wwid ".*QEMU_HARDDISK.*" } > Configuring NFS on some other machine is easy. > > I'm using another VM for this, so I can easily test negative flows like stopping > or restarting the NFS server while it is being used by vms or storage > operations. > I'm using 2G alpine vm for this, it works fine even with 1G memory. I think I can get local storage working now (I had it working before).