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From: Frank Meinl <frank.meinl@live.de>
To: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] multipath: Extend program description in manpage
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:13:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR09MB289751B64BA29C2B7C307984FE350@AM0PR09MB2897.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb1c3bce184dae7dc6148417aae115a87658a28c.camel@suse.com>

On 26.09.20 21:02, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 18:29 +0200, Frank Meinl wrote:
>> Add two paragraphs which list some advantages of multipath and
>> explain
>> the benefit for single path devices. The text has been partly
>> composed
>> by Benjamin Marzinski. - Refer to
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-September/msg00431.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Meinl <frank.meinl@live.de>
> 
> Hm, this was not what I meant. multipath(8) is not the man page of the
> dm-multipath kernel feature, it's the man page of the tool "multipath".
> USB disks could just as well be set up using "multipathd". This text is
> too generic and doesn't fit into multipath(8), neither generally nor
> wrt style.
> 
> We don't have a man page about dm-multipath itself, and as nobody has
> asked for it in 15 years, perhaps it's a bit late now to start one.
> 
> I know I asked you to do this, but thinking about it now, if you don't
> mind, let's just leave it at the first patch.
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> 

No problem,
For me it's perfectly fine to ignore this patch. Maybe I was the wrong
person for this job, as I'm practically new to multipath.

Anyhow, if somebody else wants to use this text snippet in a more
appropriate place, please feel free.

  Frank

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-28 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-26 16:26 [PATCH v2 1/2] libmultipath: Allow discovery of USB devices Frank Meinl
2020-09-26 16:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] multipath: Extend program description in manpage Frank Meinl
2020-09-26 19:02   ` Martin Wilck
2020-09-28 19:13     ` Frank Meinl [this message]
2020-09-26 18:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] libmultipath: Allow discovery of USB devices Martin Wilck

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