Comment 5 for bug 644489

Looks like this call to multipath(8) in the udev rules was added quite a while ago. I'm not sure where to go from here; our hardy machines don't exhibit this behavior, and I'm not sure what's generating the events or how to break the loop short of commenting out the udev rule action.

multipath-tools (0.4.8-11) unstable; urgency=low
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  * [4f8a5d1] Call multipath via udev on block device add/change events This
    helps slow devices when either /etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot or the
    initramfs script are being run although the devices are not ready yet.
    (Closes: #489850) - many thanks to Janusz Dziemidowicz for his suggestions
    and testing
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 -- Guido Guenther <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:59:03 -0400