Re: [PATCH 1/3] multipath-tools: delete obsolete information from multipath.conf.5

[Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>]

On 6/11/26 12:46 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 07, 2026 at 12:38:21PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:

>> @@ -198,9 +198,8 @@ kernel multipath target:
>>   .TP 12
>>   .I "round-robin 0"
>>   Choose the path for the next bunch of I/O by looping through every path in the
>> -path group, sending \fBthe same number of I/O requests\fR to each path. Some
>> -aspects of behavior can be controlled with the attributes: \fIrr_min_io\fR,
>> -\fIrr_min_io_rq\fR and \fIrr_weight\fR.
>> +path group, sending \fBthe same number of I/O requests\fR to each path.

> For the path selectors, we know the number of I/O requests that will
> be sent, and it's 1. So instead of saying "the next bunch of I/O", we
> should probably just say "the next I/O request". And we can probably
> just drop the "sending the same number of  I/O  requests to each path"
> part of the round-robin definition.

>> @@ -1008,10 +974,6 @@ The default is: \fB<unset>\fR
>>   .TP
>>   .B config_dir
>>   (Deprecated) This option is not supported anymore, and will be ignored.
>> -.RS
>> -.TP
>> -The compiled-in value is: \fB@CONFIGDIR@\fR
>> -.RE

> We don't actually specify the location of these files and directories
> elsewhere in this man page (except for the bindings file), and we do
> refer to them by these config option names. We should probably
> replace the references to these option names with the actual file
> locations, and probably also list the files in a FILES section.
Sounds good. I will address both points and submit the updates in
separate patches.