On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:57:20AM -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:14:23AM +0200, Christophe Varoqui wrote: > > On mer., 2011-08-31 at 21:55 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > > This adds a new default feature, find_multipaths. When this is set to yes, > > > multipath will no longer try to create a multipath device for every > > > non-blacklisted device. Instead, it will only create a device when one of > > > three conditions are met. > > > > > > 1. Three are at least two non-blacklisted paths with the same wwid > > > 2. The user manually forces the creation, by specifying a device with the > > > multipath command. > > > 3. A path has the same wwid as a multipath device that was previously crreated > > > (even if that multipath device doesn't currently exist). > > > > > Hannes, > > > > this patch implements complex semantics and mis-use /etc to store > > variable data (/run was suggested as a replacement). Though I realize > > the benefits, I'm not at ease merging it. > > This will add wwids to the wwids file at the same times that new bindings > get added to the bindings file. We decided to move the bindings file to > /etc/multipath/bindings because it caused problems during bootup, if > /var/run was not mounted. This will have the same problems where you > will be writing to a file that eventually gets mounted over. So I am > against using /var/run although it looks like the systemd folks have made /run a tmpfs filesystem, and /var/run a pointer to it (at least in Fedora), so I guess I'm not opposed to moving things back to /var/run anymore. -Ben > > -Ben > > > > > Mike Snitzer pushed for its inclusion, but I don't remember your > > commenting. Would your care to ? > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Christophe Varoqui > > OpenSVC - Tools to scale > > http://www.opensvc.com/ > > > > -- > > dm-devel mailing list > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
