[ANNOUNCE] multipath-tools-0.2.1

christophe.varoqui
2004-06-03T09:52:23Z

Hello,

here goes multipath-tools-0.2.1

This is a fairly big update which address all the problems reported so far and
includes patchs from a greater number of testers. I'm quite happy to see it
mostly works for a wide variety of hardware (server arch and storage).
Anyway, it still needs more beating. Specificaly on EMC hardware, to which I
don't have access.

Changelog for this release :

* [multipath] add a flag to inihibit the final SIGHUP to
multipathd. Needed to avoid recursion with the correction
below
* [multipathd] devmap event now triggers a multipath exec
in addition to the usual updatepaths()
* [multipathd] move checkers from sg_io on BLK onto CHR
readsector0 goes from read to sg_read
* [multipathd] rely on sysfs for failedpaths enum and no
longer on the device mapper
* [multipathd] convert get_lun_strings from ioctl to sysfs
so we can benefit from strings persistency for failed
paths
* [multipath] readconfig() to take only 8 char from vendor
string (ake)
* [multipath] remove unecessery and wrong getuid == NULL
check from devinfo() (ake)
* [multipathd] make readsector0 open path O_DIRECT
* [multipathd] sizeof(path) -> sizeof(struct path) (MikeC)
* [Makefile] don't try to install and uninstall libs
* [devmap_name] kill the wrong trailing '\n'
(Mike Christie)
* [kpartx] works with device nodes outside /dev
* [kpartx] correctly display the delimiter in partition
name outputs