This is another stab at handling tableless multipath devices. The first two patches are reworkings of two patches from my last patchset based on feedback from Martin. The rest are new. libmp_mapinfo now has a new return value, DMP_EMPTY, for devices that don't have any table. The creation failure path is fixed to check for this value before removing a device after a failed create, instead of just removing any existing DM device with the same name. libmp_mapinfo now also always fills in info.name, info.uuid and info.dmi if requested, whenever a device is found, even if it returns DMP_NO_MATCH, DMP_EMPTY, or DMP_ERR. dm_find_map_by_wwid() uses this, as well as MAPINFO_MPATH_ONLY, to only return DM_OK for valid multipath devices, but to return the alias of any device that matches the uuid, even if it's not a valid multipath device. domap() has been updated to use dm_find_map_by_wwid() to check for any DM device that matches the WWID of the device to be created. This lets it handle tableless devices that share the WWID of the device to be created but not its alias. Previously, multipath would fail attempting to create these devices. Now it correctly renames and reloads them when running multipath, starting or reloading multipathd, or running "multipathd add map". Finally, dm_flush_map__() and do_foreach_partmaps() also handle tabless devices. So multipath -F will remove tabless multipath devices, as well as tableless partition devices on top of multipath devices (tabless or not). I cleanup up a number of minor issues while working on this. Changes from v1 (based on discussions with Martin Wilck): 0004: Dropped the flag. libmp_mapinfo now always fills in uuid, name, and dmi if a device was found and they are non-NULL. 0005: Adapt to the changes in 0004 0007-0013: New patches to handle tabless devices in dm_flush_map__() and do_foreach_partmaps(), as well as some minor fixes/cleanups I encountered along the way. Benjamin Marzinski (12): libmultipath: signal device with no table in libmp_mapinfo libmultipath: fix removing device after failed creation libmultipath: set uuid, name, and dmi if a device is found libmultipath: check table type in dm_find_map_by_wwid libmultipath: handle a create corner case for empty devices libmultipath: handle empty maps in dm_flush_map__ libmultipath: factor out code to check if a device is a parition libmultipath: remove recursive calls in partmap_funcs libmultipath: move dm_rename__ before rename_partmap libmultipath: assume device is in use if dm_get_opencount fails libmultipath: accept empty partitions as valid in do_foreach_partmaps libmultipath: reduce log level for DMP_NOT_FOUND Martin Wilck (1): multipath-tools tests: fix mapinfo tests libmultipath/configure.c | 21 +++- libmultipath/devmapper.c | 212 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------- libmultipath/devmapper.h | 13 ++- libmultipath/structs_vec.c | 5 +- multipathd/cli_handlers.c | 8 +- tests/mapinfo.c | 92 ++++++++++++---- 6 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-) -- 2.46.2