[ovirt-users] multipath: error getting device

[Joop]

On 14-9-2014 8:39, Daniel Erez wrote:
> Hi Jorick,
>
> This error is most often caused by multipath attempting to map a device which
> is already in use, such as if its mounted or mapped by an active LVM logical volume. 
> If the blacklist in /etc/multipath.conf does not restrict multipath from mapping
> the device, then when it gets run during boot it will attempt to map it.
> Because the device is in use, this mapping will fail.
>
>
What I tend to do these days is that if I don't have multipath or might
start using multipath somewhere in the future is to blacklist all
devices and then whitelist the real multipath devices when needed.
amend /etc/multipath.conf with this:
blacklist {
    wwid "*"
}

Joop