From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: christophe.varoqui@free.fr, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [PATCH] Add alias_prefix to get multipath names based on storage type
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:57:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C298B3E.7030907@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100628230737.GA17462@us.ibm.com>
Malahal Naineni wrote:
> Any comments??
>
> Malahal Naineni [malahal@us.ibm.com] 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 like it. Having an option to modify the alias prefix is something
I always wanted to have.
You could update the manpage, though.
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-23 2:27 [PATCH] [RFC] [PATCH] Add alias_prefix to get multipath names based on storage type Malahal Naineni
2010-06-28 23:07 ` Malahal Naineni
2010-06-29 5:54 ` Christophe Varoqui
2010-06-29 5:57 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2010-07-16 7:12 ` Christophe Varoqui
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