Description

Veritas Engineering has released Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Private hotfix 8.0.0.2802 to resolve handling defect for invalid device symbolic links created under /, instead of /dev/vx/.dmp.
 

VxVM Patch ID: 8.0.0.2802

* 4166088 (Tracking ID: 4166086)

SYMPTOM:
VxVM created invalid device symbolic links under root which isn't expected.

#ls -al /
...
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root       16 Jun 20 00:20 sdo -> /dev/vx/.dmp/sdo
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root       16 Jun 20 00:27 sdp -> /dev/vx/.dmp/sdp
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root       16 Jun 20 00:21 sdq -> /dev/vx/.dmp/sdq
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root       16 Jun 20 00:23 sdr -> /dev/vx/.dmp/sdr

DESCRIPTION:
Volume manager creates invalid device symbolic links by mistake under root.

RESOLUTION:

The code has been made to create device symbolic links in /dev/vx/.dmp.


Sample output
 

# cd /dev/vx/.dmp

# ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 700 Jun 21 14:17 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 420 Jun 21 14:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  40 Jun 21 14:17 HBA
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  47 Jun 21 14:17 sda -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:03:00.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  48 Jun 21 14:17 sdaa -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:26:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  48 Jun 21 14:17 sdab -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:27:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  48 Jun 21 14:17 sdac -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:28:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  48 Jun 21 14:17 sdad -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:29:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  48 Jun 21 14:17 sdae -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:30:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  48 Jun 21 14:17 sdaf -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:31:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  47 Jun 21 14:17 sdb -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  47 Jun 21 14:17 sdc -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:1:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  47 Jun 21 14:17 sdd -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:2:0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  47 Jun 21 14:17 sde -> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-0:0:3:0

Product Impact

A supported hotfix has been made available for this issue. Please contact  Technical Support to obtain this fix. This hotfix has not yet gone through any extensive Q&A testing. Consequently, if you are not adversely affected by this problem and have a satisfactory temporary workaround in place, we recommend that you wait for the public release of this hotfix.

Only Linux platforms are impacted. Only InfoScale 8.0.0 is impacted. The issue does not impact InfoScale 7.4.2 or 8.0.2 product releases.