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 09:17:08 +0200 Message-ID: <48215774.9030602@suse.de> References: <20080430090329.CAC0718C6FF@pentland.suse.de> <20080506193539.GA7332@bogon.ms20.nix> <482149EC.4080808@suse.de> <000001c8b00c$e26539c0$cf42e3c1@pitagora.it> 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: <000001c8b00c$e26539c0$cf42e3c1@pitagora.it> 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 Domenico, Domenico Viggiani wrote: > Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Normally I don't use this option much; in fact, I discourage=20 >> everyone on using it :-) I really loath to have external=20 >> configuration files to get your filesystem up. >=20 > In fact, I remember the nasty problem at boot time with bindings file > residing under /var/lib/multipath when this is a filesystem different f= rom > /: > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_96_12017.shtm >=20 Which is exactly why I don't like it. And most users normally won't touch the device names anyway, so I don't have a problem with /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-XXXXX-partY. Plus it breaks my brilliant seamless-switch-to-multipath scheme :-) Hmm. Maybe I should write an NAA/IEEE naming decoder to translate the hex number into something readable :-) 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)