Then we might have a distro bug here, which is weird as I've done hundreds of SAN installs with lucid and have had to manage the scsi_dh modules everytime.
So on your lucid system, /etc/initramfs-tools/modules should be empty except for the commented out examples. The next thing to check is the initram disks themselves, assuming there's no directives in the previous config file, the presence of the scsi_dh kos in the initrd would indicate that they were be globbed in by another initramfs helper. Actually... root@nashira:~# zcat /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-26-generic | cpio -it | grep scsi_dh lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.ko lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.ko lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.ko lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.ko 81384 blocks root@nashira:~# zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-41-generic | cpio -it | grep scsi_dh lib/modules/2.6.32-41-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_hp_sw.ko lib/modules/2.6.32-41-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.ko lib/modules/2.6.32-41-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.ko lib/modules/2.6.32-41-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.ko 64508 blocks OK, I'm surprised :) In my 2.6.32 initrd I find: root@nashira:~/2.6.32# cat conf/modules scsi_dh_alua which I suppose prompts my device handler to be installed. Which is driven by 'modules' and 'modules.d' in /usr/share/initramfs-tools. So the modules apparently have always been there, thanks to this hook script. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions scsi) copy_modules_dir kernel/drivers/scsi for x in mptfc mptsas mptscsih mptspi zfcp; do manual_add_modules "${x}" done ;; Which is how the scsi_dh_* kos got on the initramfs, but that doesn't explain how it was loaded. That directive had to come from somewhere, so it's either already in your /usr/share/initramfs-tools/modules|modules.d or it's in your /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.d|modules and you missed it. *something* has to be prompting it's inclusion. What's the output of, as root? grep -Rl scsi_dh /etc /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057054 Title: poor performance after upgrade to Precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/1057054/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs