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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
To: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
	Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 08/16] multipath.conf.5: document "ignore_wwids"
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:29:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180119002916.10323-9-mwilck@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180119002916.10323-1-mwilck@suse.com>

---
 multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 b/multipath/multipath.conf.5
index ab151e720d75..33ad775139c4 100644
--- a/multipath/multipath.conf.5
+++ b/multipath/multipath.conf.5
@@ -954,12 +954,43 @@ device again, as soon as it sees a path with that WWID. This should allow most
 users to have multipath automatically choose the correct paths to make into
 multipath devices, without having to edit the blacklist.
 .RS
+.PP
+If \fBignore_wwids\fR is set to
+.I no
+, only method
+.I 2
+above (manual creation by the user) will be used for creating new maps.
+.RE
+.RS
 .TP
 The default is: \fBno\fR
 .RE
 .
 .
 .TP
+.B ignore_wwids
+If set to
+.I no
+, multipath and multipathd only consider paths matching a WWID listed in
+the \fBwwids_file\fR as valid multipath devices. Automatic multipath map
+creation is disabled.
+.
+If set to
+.I yes
+, and \fBfind_multipaths\fR is
+.I no
+, every device which is not blacklisted
+will be treated as a potential multipath member. See above for
+the logic if  \fBfind_multipaths\fR is set to
+.I yes.
+.
+.RS
+.TP
+The default is: \fBoff\fR
+.RE
+.
+.
+.TP
 .B uxsock_timeout
 CLI receive timeout in milliseconds. For larger systems CLI commands
 might timeout before the multipathd lock is released and the CLI command
-- 
2.15.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-19  0:29 [RFC PATCH 00/16] multipath path classification Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 01/16] Revert "multipath: ignore -i if find_multipaths is set" Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] Revert "multipathd: imply -n " Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 03/16] libmultipath: add mpvec param to should_multipath() Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] libmultipath: should_multipath: keep existing maps Martin Wilck
2018-01-19 16:06   ` Benjamin Marzinski
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] multipath -u -i: change logic for find_multipaths Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 06/16] libmultipath: let ignore_wwids be set in config file Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] multipathd: replace -n with !ignore_wwids Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] multipath.8: adapt documentation of '-i' Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] multipathd.8: document that '-n' is now ignored Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] multipath: common code path for CMD_VALID_PATH Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] multipath -u/-c: change output to environment/key format Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 13/16] multipath -u/-c: add "$DEV is maybe a valid path" Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 14/16] multipath.rules: find_multipaths+ignore_wwids logic Martin Wilck
2018-01-19 18:12   ` Benjamin Marzinski
2018-01-20  1:20     ` Martin Wilck
2018-01-21  3:21       ` Benjamin Marzinski
2018-01-22 21:56         ` Martin Wilck
2018-01-25 13:40           ` Benjamin Marzinski
2018-01-26 17:29             ` Martin Wilck
2018-01-29 22:28               ` Benjamin Marzinski
2018-01-30 13:07                 ` Martin Wilck
2018-01-30 23:40                   ` Benjamin Marzinski
2018-01-20  0:27   ` [FIX for 14/16] multipath.rules: set job properties for systemd-run correctly Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 15/16] libmultipath: trigger change uevent on new device creation Martin Wilck
2018-01-19  0:29 ` [RFC PATCH 16/16] libmultipath: trigger path uevent only when necessary Martin Wilck
2018-03-07  8:53 ` [RFC PATCH 00/16] multipath path classification Christophe Varoqui
2018-03-07  9:26   ` Martin Wilck

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