On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 21:09 +0200, Frank Meinl wrote: > This change adds a new configuration option allow_usb_devices. It is > disabled by default, so that the behavior of existing setups is not > changed. If enabled (via multipath.conf), USB devices will be found > during device discovery and can be used for multipath setups. > > Without this option, multipath currently ignores all USB drives, > which > is convenient for most users. (refer also to commit 51957eb) > > However, it can be beneficial to use the multipath dm-module even if > there is only a single path to an USB attached storage. In > combination > with the option 'queue_if_no_path', such a setup survives a temporary > device disconnect without any severe consequences for the running > applications. All I/O is queued until the device reappears. > > Signed-off-by: Frank Meinl <frank.meinl@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
