Boot takes a long time with multipath SAN storage containing many paths and partitions on the LUNs

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Booting takes an hour or more, and udev takes up a lot of the time.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Connected to SAN with many LUNs and paths

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