On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:15:11 +0200 Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx> wrote > > What about the idea of having device specific display options (and > > device specific plug-ins to manage these) which while they are > > multipathing relevant, they are not managed by multipath(8)? > > Are you trying to stay away from this? > > > > I'm sure our CLARiiON customers would rather see that the multipath > > display command using terminology which they are familiar with > > already. > > > I'd rather favor consistency for users changing multipathing > hardware, than for users changing OS but keeping the same > multipathing hardware. > > I guess in the second case, the users already expects changes. > > Also I suspect multi-vendor SAN users will appreciate the consistency. > > Do you have strong feelings about this plugin idea ? No. You bring up a very good point about maintaining consistency for the management of either a multi-vendor SAN or across different SAN hardware.
