[dm-devel] User friendly names patch.

Christophe Varoqui christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Sat Oct 22 07:36:35 UTC 2005


On ven, 2005-10-21 at 18:35 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> This is a patch to add the option of more user friendly names for the
> multipath maps, in the form of mpath<n>.  It adds a configuration option
> "user_friendly_names". If set, it will cause multipath to check a bindings
> file for the names. The bindings file (/var/lib/multipath/bindings) has
> alias to wwid mappings. If multipath finds its wwid in the file, it uses
> the associated alias. If not, it creates a new alias, and adds the binding
> to the bindings file. If the config option is not set, multipath defaults
> to it's regular behavior. Specific aliases in /etc/multipath.conf override
> this behavior.
> 
You forgot to attach the patch :/
I'll review it again.

Last time I remember I had some worries about it, though I'm perfectly
happy with the feature. Others' review is welcome.

Regards,
cvaroqui





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