From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christophe Varoqui Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [PATCH] Add alias_prefix to get multipath names based on storage type Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:12:55 +0200 Message-ID: <1279264375.30600.744.camel@localhost> References: Reply-To: christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com, device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On mar., 2010-06-22 at 19:27 -0700, Malahal Naineni wrote: > The current multipath tools use "mpath" prefix for all LUNs when > user_friendly_names is set. It would be nice if the names are generated > based on the storage subsystem. For example, all EMC LUNs would be named > emc_a, emc_b, elm_c etc., and all IBM's SVC LUNs would be named svc_a, > svc_b, svc_c. This patch attempts to do that using only multipath.conf. > Patches can be added to the internal hardware table, if needed. > I merged this patch finally. Only Hannes cared to comment, but he sure looked enthusiastic ;) Thanks for this work. Regards, -- Christophe Varoqui OpenSVC