Re: [dm-devel] User friendly names patch.

[Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:37:41PM +0200, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> 
> > How about I make the bindings file location configurable, so that everyone
> > can be happy with the location? I'll leave the default location where it
> > is now when I send the patch.  If you would like to change it to someplace in
> > /etc when you commit it, go ahead.
> > 
> Agreed, I guess we can get off with a multipath(8) flag to specify an
> exotic location in the init{rd,ramfs} and leave the normal location
> in /var.
> 
> I merged the patch as-is today.
> 
> Can you craft a patch to move the bindings file locking method from
> "non-block + retry" to "block + timeout", if it makes sense to you too.

Sure. Here is the patch. It adds both the -b <bindings_file_path> option to
the multipath command, and changes the locking method.

-Ben
 
> Regards,
> cvaroqui
> 
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