From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Meinl Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] multipath: Extend program description in manpage Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:13:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Content-Language: en-US To: Martin Wilck , dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids 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 > > 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