Hi Christophe,
I've had a customer issue where someone complained that multipath
would reject paths if they are in ALUA 'standby'.
As it turns out, SPC-3 does _not_ require the READ_CAPACITY command
to be implemented if a target port is in standby.
Consecutively, linux would register this path with a capacity of
'0', and multipath would reject the path in ev_add_path().
Which makes we wonder, do we actually _need_ the check for a matched
capacity?
With VPD page 0x83 pretty much standard as of now (and I'm reasonbly
sure we'll reject any device _not_ providing VPD page 0x83 anyway)
we basically have to rely on that information.
IE if the WWID is identical we have assume the devices are
identical. So it would make sense to just remove the check altogether.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Hannes
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