On 26.09.20 21:02, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 18:29 +0200, Frank Meinl wrote: >> Add two paragraphs which list some advantages of multipath and >> explain >> the benefit for single path devices. The text has been partly >> composed >> by Benjamin Marzinski. - Refer to >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-September/msg00431.html >> >> Signed-off-by: Frank Meinl <frank.meinl@xxxxxxx> > > Hm, this was not what I meant. multipath(8) is not the man page of the > dm-multipath kernel feature, it's the man page of the tool "multipath". > USB disks could just as well be set up using "multipathd". This text is > too generic and doesn't fit into multipath(8), neither generally nor > wrt style. > > We don't have a man page about dm-multipath itself, and as nobody has > asked for it in 15 years, perhaps it's a bit late now to start one. > > I know I asked you to do this, but thinking about it now, if you don't > mind, let's just leave it at the first patch. > > Regards > Martin > > No problem, For me it's perfectly fine to ignore this patch. Maybe I was the wrong person for this job, as I'm practically new to multipath. Anyhow, if somebody else wants to use this text snippet in a more appropriate place, please feel free. Frank -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
