[libvirt] [PATCH 07/10] docs: storage: Document multipath pools

Dave Allan dallan at redhat.com
Tue Feb 23 22:33:59 UTC 2010


On 02/22/2010 05:10 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson<crobinso at redhat.com>
> ---
>   docs/storage.html.in |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/storage.html.in b/docs/storage.html.in
> index c179945..a1b3322 100644
> --- a/docs/storage.html.in
> +++ b/docs/storage.html.in
> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ libvirt.
>         <li>
>           <a href="#StorageBackendSCSI">SCSI backend</a>
>         </li>
> +<li>
> +<a href="#StorageBackendMultipath">Multipath backend</a>
> +</li>
>       </ul>
>
>       <h2><a name="StorageBackendDir" id="StorageBackendDir">Directory pool</a></h2>
> @@ -381,6 +384,41 @@ libvirt.
>         The SCSI volume pool does not use the volume format type element.
>       </p>
>
> +<h2><a name="StorageBackendMultipath" id="StorageBackendMultipath">Multipath pools</a></h2>
> +<p>
> +      This provides a pool that contains all the multipath devices on the
> +      host. Volume creating is not supported via the libvirt APIs.
> +      The target element is actually ignored, but one is required to appease
> +      the libvirt XML parser.<br/>
> +<br/>
> +      Configuring multipathing is not currently supported, this just covers
> +      the case where users want to discover all the available multipath
> +      devices, and assign them to guests.
> +<span class="since">Since 0.7.1</span></dd>
> +</p>
> +
> +<h3>Example pool input</h3>
> +<pre>
> +<pool type="mpath">
> +<name>virtimages</name>
> +<target>
> +<path>/dev/mapper</path>
> +</target>
> +</pool></pre>
> +
> +<h3>Valid pool format types</h3>
> +<p>
> +      The Multipath volume pool does not use the pool format type element.
> +</p>
> +
> +<h3>Valid volume format types</h3>
> +<p>
> +      The Multipath volume pool does not use the volume format type element.
> +</p>
> +
> +
> +</body>
> +</html>
>
>     </body>
>   </html>

ACK to this as well.




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