On Di, 2021-06-08 at 18:02 +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > > > > A third related improvement that could follow is to add stronger > > > native > > > mpath detection, in which lvm uses uses /etc/multipath/wwids, > > > directly or > > > through a multipath library, to identify mpath components. This > > > would > > > supplement the existing sysfs and udev sources, and address the > > > difficult > > > case where the mpath device is not yet set up. > > > > > Please don't. Use libmpathvalid if you want to improve in this > > area. > > That's what it was made for. > > Problem is addition of another dependency here. > > We may probably think about using 'dlopen' and if library is present > use it, > but IMHO libmpathvalid should be integrated into libblkid in some > way - > linking another library to many other projects that needs to detect > MP devices > really complicates this a lot. libblkid should be able to decode > this and > make things much cleaner. Fair enough. I just wanted to say "don't start hardcoding anything new in lvm2". Currently, you won't find libmpathvalid on many distributions. Martin _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
