[dm-devel] [PATCH v2] multipath: add detect_prio option to autodetect prioitizer

[Christophe Varoqui]

On ven., 2013-01-11 at 08:17 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 09:13 PM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > This patch adds a new multipath.conf option, detect_prio.  If set to yes,
> > multipathd will try to determine the correct prioritizer for the device. If
> > it finds one, that will be used instead of its configured prioritizer.  If
> > none is found, the configured prioritizer will be used.  It can currently
> > only detect ALUA devices.
> >
> > Also fixed and issue with select_prio where in the devices section, it was
> > passing in the prio name string instead of the prio args string to prio_get()
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> 
> Good idea.
> 
Don"t you think it would be fair to fallback to autodetection if no
prioritizer is set, instead ? Admins would expect the values they care
to set in the config file are honored.

Best regards,
Christophe Varoqui
www.opensvc.com