Re: [PATCH 2/2] multipath.conf(5): improve documentation of dev_loss_tmo

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On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 01:02:41AM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 18:00 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > One of the Enterprise 7 variants, Claims "0.4.9" multipath but
> > appears to have a number of recent features backported, so some
> > frankensteined version.
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 5:50 PM Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 17:44 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > The older distribution I checked has this for -T
> > > >      -T tm:valid
> > > >               check if tm matches the multipathd configuration
> > > > timestamp value from /run/multipathd/timestamp If so, return
> > > > success
> > > > if valid is 1. Otherwise, return failure. If the timestamp
> > > > doesn't
> > > > match continue with multipath execution.  This option is designed
> > > > to
> > > > be used with -c by the udev rules.
> > > 
> > > Strange, I can't find this anywhere in the sources I know.
> > > What distro is this? "multipath -T" in the sense I described has
> > > existed since 0.7.7, so for more than 4 years.
> > > 
> > > Martin
> > > 
> 
> Funny, Ben never told me there was a conflicting option name in RHEL.
> I guess it's too late now, as I said, the upstream option has existed
> for 4 years.

This was a fix for a RHEL specific systemd issue, that's long since been
resolved in more up to date versions of RHEL. RHEL-8 and RHEL-9 have the
same code as upstream for the -T option.

-Ben

> 
> Martin
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