Here is a long due multipath-tools release. Most patches in there are already available in enterprise distributions package. The tarball is available on http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/ My maintainer work on this project is now sponsored by http://www.opensvc.com and the Nexenta multipath support has been sponsored by http://www.alyseo.com/ multipath-tools-0.4.9 shortlog : * Changes that may require your altering your config file : * rename hp_sw hwhandler * directio is now the default checker (async) * deprecated prio_callout keyword: now use prio/prio_args * move bindings file location to /etc * add 'max_fds' keyword * add 'verbosity' keyword * add 'queue_without_daemon' keyword * add 'mode', 'uid' and 'gid' keywords * add 'fast_io_fail' and 'dev_loss_tmo' keywords * add 'checker' keyword as alias to 'path_checker' * Features * make kpartx deal with more than 256 minor numbers * fail/reinstate CLI commands disable/enable path checker * support multipath-capable cciss hardware, add cciss_tur checker * 'show config' output usable as a config file replacement * create read-only multipath if rw try failed * care about offlined paths * support resizing of multipath maps * kpartx removes its loop devices * support other load-balancing policies * add datacore prioritizer * add '-r' multipath arg to force maps reload * add "show paths format" cli command * add "show maps format" cli command * add "show status" cli command * add "show wildcards" cli command * add "quit" cli command * add "enablequeueing" and "disablequeueing" cli commands * Fixes * leaks plugged (virtualiron, suse, redhat work) * honour ALUA preference indicator * Developers changes : * no more prioritizer callouts. replaced by mem-pinned .so to avoid having to cache the callouts. * move checkers to mem-pinned .so too * allow arguments passing to prioritizers * Contributors : * Alex Zeffertt <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Andrey Panin <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Babu Moger <...@xxxxxxx> * Benjamin Marzinski <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Brian King <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Bryn M.Reeves <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Chandra Seetharaman <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Charlie Brady <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chauhan, Vijay <...@xxxxxxx> * Christophe Varoqui <...@xxxxxxxxxxx> * Colin Watson <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Dave Wysochanski <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Guido Guenther <...@xxxxxxxxxxx> * Guido Günther <...@xxxxxxxxxxx> * Hannes Reinecke <...@xxxxxxx> * Jim Lester <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Kiyoshi Ueda <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Konrad Rzeszutek <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Martin Petermann <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Matthew Kent <...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> * Mike Anderson <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Mike Snitzer <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Moger, Babu <...@xxxxxxx> * Nikanth Karthikesan <...@xxxxxxx> * Ritesh Raj Sarraf <...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Rumko <...@xxxxxxxxx> * Stefan Bader <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Stefan Haberland <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Stefan Weinhuber <...@xxxxxxxxxx> * Yanqing Liu <...@xxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
