[dm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] multipath-tools-0.2.7
christophe.varoqui at free.fr
christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Mon Jul 26 10:16:34 UTC 2004
Selon christophe.varoqui at free.fr:
> Hello,
>
> here goes multipath-tools version 0.2.7
>
> Jan,
> the ULUA framework I got implemented is rather simple :
> 1) the path struct gets a new ->priority member
> 2) before path grouping, sort the path list by priority
>
> The missing link is the priority fetcher.
> Does that framework fit your needs ?
>
Note, that I see this ->priority as a generic way to deport path grouping policy
into callout binaries : I'll code a generic "group_by_prio" pgpolicy and a
priority_callout config keyword for that.
> 2004-07-24 multipath-tools-0.2.7
> * [multipath] args parser moved to getopt
> <genanr at emsphone.com>
> * [multipath] zero conf->hotplugdev at allocation
> <genanr at emsphone.com>
> * [multipath] clean up failed devmap creation attempt
> * [libs] update to libdevmapper 1.00.19
> * [multipath] framework for claimed device skipping
> still lacks a reliable way to know if the device is
> claimed and by who (fs, swap, md, dm, ...). If you
> think it is valid to let libdevmapper hit the wall,
> please speak up and tell so.
> * [multipath] shut down stderr when calling into libdm
> * [multipath] reformat the verbose output
> * [multipath] framework for path priority handling (ULUA)
> * [multipath] kill all reference to group_by_tur
> * [multipath] integrate path state logic into multibus &
> failover pgpolicies. This obsoletes the group_by_tur one
> which is now the same as multibus.
> * [multipath] zalloc mp structs to avoid garbage in ->size
> * bump version requisite for scsi_id to 0.6 to support the new
> '-u' flag (s/ /_/ for proper JBOD device map naming)
> * [multipath] correct the for(;;) limits to accept 1-slot
> pathvecs
> * [multipath] push WWID_SIZE to 64 char (scsi_id w/ JBODs)
> * [multipath] add a exit_tool() wrapper fn for runfile unlink
> * [multipath] add a "default_path_grouping_policy" keyword in the
> * "defaults" block.
> * [multipath] add a "default_getuid_callout" keyword in the
> "defaults" block. Now multipath is going to work with JBODs
> * [multipath] fix segfault when pathvec is empty after
> get_pathvec()
> * move to template based specfile to avoid regular version skew
>
> Downloads and docs at http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr
>
> regards,
> cvaroqui
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