On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:15:04PM +0200, Christophe Varoqui wrote: > On mer., 2013-06-12 at 11:45 +0530, amit mehta wrote: > > What is the significance of libmultipath/hwtable.c file. I see there > > is a list of vendors mentioned over here. > > > > <snip> > > > It's a database of defaults settings for known devices. > Those settings apply when not overriden by explicit settings in > multipath.conf. > > > > grep -i vendor libmultipath/hwtable.c|uniq > > .vendor = "COMPELNT", > > .vendor = "APPLE*", > > .vendor = "3PARdata", > > .vendor = "DEC", > > .vendor = "HP", > > .vendor = "(COMPAQ|HP)", > > .vendor = "HP", > > .vendor = "DDN", > > .vendor = "EMC", > > .vendor = "DGC", > > .vendor = "EMC", > > .vendor = "FSC", > > .vendor = "FUJITSU", > > .vendor = "HITACHI", > > .vendor = "IBM", > > .vendor = "IBM", > > .vendor = "AIX", > > .vendor = "IBM", > > .vendor = "AIX", > > .vendor = "IBM", > > .vendor = "AIX", > > .vendor = "DELL", > > .vendor = "NETAPP", > > .vendor = "IBM", > > .vendor = "Pillar", > > .vendor = "SGI", > > .vendor = "STK", > > .vendor = "SUN", > > .vendor = "PIVOT3", > > .vendor = "SUN", > > .vendor = "(LSI|ENGENIO)", > > .vendor = "STK", > > .vendor = "EUROLOGC", > > .vendor = "NEC", > > .vendor = NULL, > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Under each of these vendors, there is a list of products from the same > > vendor as well. So does that mean, if the vendor and or product is > > not > > mentioned in this file, that particular storage hardware may not be > > supported by dm-multipath? > > > It only means that the top-level defaults settings will be applied to > those multipaths. > Thank you for clearing my doubt. -Amit -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
