Setting a persistent owner/group/mode on multipath devices in RHEL 6

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Issue

  • What is the correct procedure to setup multipath device permissions?
  • When system boots, /dev/dm-* and /dev/mapper/<informix_dbspaces> are owned by root and even on changing ownership of owner and group  to "informix" using chown makes it roll back to root in few seconds.

  • Setting up uid and gid in /etc/multipath.conf does not work.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • device-mapper-multipath

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