On ven, 2005-10-28 at 14:35 +0530, Murthy, Narasimha Doraswamy (STSD) wrote: > Blacklisting of the device is possible using “wwid <wwn>” in blacklist > block in /etc/multipath.conf. Is there any way to blacklist the device > created with alias? Giving an alias name in devnode or wwid doesn’t > seem to work. > Yes, known limitation. Do you request the feature ? I'm not fond of introducing this as we'll have trouble keeping the blacklist in sync when aliases change ... are you ? > > 3. As it is not encouraged dmsetup utility to be used for multipathing > devices, features like suspend and resume will be useful in bringing > down the device for maintenance purposes. Any thoughts? Agreed. The daemon, by design, is a good place to send "message-ioctls" like these. Adding the daemon CLI command shouldn't be hard. I'll look into it. Regards, cvaroqui -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
