diff --git a/main/multipath-tools/APKBUILD b/main/multipath-tools/APKBUILD
index 83da06c3a38..693b191db4a 100644
--- a/main/multipath-tools/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/multipath-tools/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@gmail.com>
 pkgname="multipath-tools"
 pkgver=0.4.9
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="Device Mapper Multipathing Driver"
 url="http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/"
 license="GPL"
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ package() {
 	cd $_builddir
 	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 	install -D -m644 ../$pkgname.conf $pkgdir/etc/multipath.conf
+	install -D -m644 ../$pkgname.confd $pkgdir/etc/conf.d/multipathd
 	install -D -m755 ../$pkgname.initd $pkgdir/etc/init.d/multipathd
 }
 
diff --git a/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.confd b/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.confd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..979aa96e2d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.confd
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+rc_before="lvm"
+rc_after="iscsid"
diff --git a/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.initd b/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.initd
index 931bc313d0d..8c02b21dd5b 100644
--- a/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.initd
+++ b/main/multipath-tools/multipath-tools.initd
@@ -7,14 +7,30 @@ depend() {
 	after firewall
 }
 
+do_nodes() {
+	for dev in $(ls /dev/mapper/mpath*)
+	do
+		kpartx -a $dev
+	done
+}
+
+undo_nodes() {
+	for dev in $(ls /dev/mapper/mpath*)
+	do
+		kpartx -d $dev
+	done
+}
+
 start() {
 	ebegin "Starting multipathd"
 	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/multipathd
+	do_nodes()
 	eend $?
 }
 
 stop() {
 	ebegin "Stopping multipathd"
-	start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/multipathd.pid
+	undo_nodes()
+	start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry --pidfile /var/run/multipathd.pid
 	eend $?
 }