From: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] persistent readable names
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:09:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051005150923.GC6195@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4343DFDC.2020701@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:14:52PM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> This patch is more for discussion than inclusion at the moment. Basically it's
> unrealistic for users with hundreds of disks to alias them all in
> /etc/multipath.conf and the default names are very unwieldy.
>
> What this patch does is attach a name to any un-aliased path and write that name
> to /etc/multipath.names. The file is read again every time the paths are added
> so they are persistent.
>
It would please old Tru64 fans :/
> There are a small number of possibly contentious things:
>
For one thing, you didn't care to unbork the daemon :)
It tries a mapname (ie alias) to wwid resolution upon map add events.
Unphased mpe vector will unduly fail the lookup.
Regards,
cvaroqui
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-05 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-05 14:14 [PATCH] [RFC] persistent readable names Patrick Caulfield
2005-10-05 15:09 ` Christophe Varoqui [this message]
2005-10-05 18:07 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-10-05 21:27 ` Christophe Varoqui
2005-10-05 22:38 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-10-06 7:07 ` Patrick Caulfield
2005-10-06 15:54 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-10-06 7:04 ` Patrick Caulfield
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