From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/30] multipath: Implement 'property' blacklist
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:04:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545C8B28.7010006@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F64913.3060801@suse.de>
On 08/21/14 21:31, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 08/21/2014 06:37 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Hannes Reinecke <hare <at> suse.de> writes:
>>> Multipath can only handle device properly which support the VPD
>>> page 0x83. Originally this was ensured by 'scsi_id', which would
>>> not present an ID_SERIAL value in these cases.
>>> With the move to udev 'ID_SERIAL' is now always present, so
>>> multipath would try to attach to _all_ SCSI devices.
>>> This patch implements an 'property' blacklist, which allows to
>>> blacklist a device based on the existence of udev properties.
>>> Any device not providing the udev property from the whitelist
>>> will be ignored.
>>> The default whitelist is set to '(ID_WWN|ID_SCSI_VPD)'.
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>
>> (replying to an e-mail of one year ago)
>>
>> Hello Hannes,
>>
>> I have a question about this patch. Which software component should
>> set the
>> ID_SCSI_VPD parameter ? Is it udev, now integrated in systemd ? I'm
>> asking
>> this because I haven't found any patch in the udev nor in the systemd
>> repositories that sets the ID_SCSI_VPD parameter. Does this mean that
>> another parameter should be used to restore support for SCSI devices that
>> support the VPD page 0x83 but do not report a WWN in that page ? Or does
>> this mean that systemd should be modified such that it sets the
>> ID_SCSI_VPD parameter ?
>
> That's actually simple typo. ID_SCSI_VPD was generated by one of the
> earlier instances of the sg3_utils udev rules.
> It should read 'SCSI_IDENT_LUN', as this is what the current udev rules
> from sg3_utils generate.
> I have a patch queued in my sles12 patchset; but so far haven't found
> time to clean them up and send upstream.
> Will be doing so once sles12 is done...
(replying to an e-mail of two months ago)
Hello Hannes,
Have you already been able to free up some time to revisit what has been
discussed above ?
Thanks,
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 7:12 [PATCH 00/30] SLES resync, second try Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 01/30] multipath: bind lifetime of udev context to main thread Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 02/30] Document 'infinity' as possible value for dev_loss_tmo Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 03/30] alua: Do not add preferred path priority for active/optimized Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 04/30] multipath: Increase dev_loss_tmo prior to fast_io_fail Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-19 21:17 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2013-07-22 7:19 ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 05/30] libmultipath: return PATH_DOWN for quiesced paths Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 06/30] libmultipath: Implement PATH_TIMEOUT Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 07/30] Deprecate pg_timeout Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:12 ` [PATCH 08/30] kpartx: create correct symlinks for PATH_FAILED events Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 09/30] multipath: Deprecate 'getuid' configuration variable Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 10/30] kpartx: support disk with non-512B sectors Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 11/30] multipath: Add 'Datacore Virtual Disk' to internal hardware table Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 12/30] Minor fixes for priority handling Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 13/30] Check return value from pathinfo() Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 14/30] Read directly from sysfs when checking the device size Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 15/30] multipath.conf.annotated: Document rr_min_io_rq Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 16/30] Correctly print out 'max' for max_fds Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 17/30] Correctly set max_fds in case of failure Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 18/30] Update multipath.conf.defaults Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 19/30] Correctly set pgfailback Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 20/30] multipath.conf.5: clarify 'no_path_retry' default setting Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 21/30] multipath.conf.annotated: remove 'udev_dir' Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 22/30] multipath: Implement 'property' blacklist Hannes Reinecke
2014-08-21 16:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2014-08-21 19:31 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-11-07 9:04 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2014-11-07 9:09 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-11-19 5:33 ` Benjamin Marzinski
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 23/30] Do not print error when rport is blocked Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 24/30] multipath: reference the udev context when starting event queue Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 25/30] multipathd: valgrind fixes Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 26/30] multipathd: increase stacksize for uevent listener Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 27/30] Specify checker_timeout in seconds Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 28/30] multipath: fix setting of fast_io_fail_tmo Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 29/30] multipath: reset queue_if_no_path if flush failed Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 7:13 ` [PATCH 30/30] libmultipath: read path state directly from sysfs Hannes Reinecke
2013-07-16 20:21 ` [PATCH 00/30] SLES resync, second try Christophe Varoqui
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