From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use 'mpatha' for user_friendly_names option Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:19:24 +0200 Message-ID: <482149EC.4080808@suse.de> References: <20080430090329.CAC0718C6FF@pentland.suse.de> <20080506193539.GA7332@bogon.ms20.nix> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080506193539.GA7332@bogon.ms20.nix> 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 Hi Guido, Guido G=FCnther wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:03:29AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> We really should use 'mpatha' instead of 'mpath0' for the >> generated names with the user_friendly_names option. >> Otherwise we can't distinguish them from EVMS names. >=20 > Is this really such a good idea? We shipped at least two upstream > versions with this user friendly names default. Changing this causes > problems and at least debian installer uses this during the installatio= n > phase. > Wouldn't it be nicer to make the user_friendly_names_prefix configurabl= e > so people can choose mpath, npath, mp or whatever they want leaving > mpath as the default? I can cook up a patch in that case. > Cheers, > -- Guido >=20 (I knew someone would choke about this one ...) Yeah, you're right. It would be nice to have that configurable. Preferred would be to select a prefix and a naming scheme, ie either numerical or characters. Was just to lazy for this ... Normally I don't use this option much; in fact, I discourage everyone on using it :-) I really loath to have external configuration files to get your filesystem up. But that's just me. Feel free to do so. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg)