[Users] default mutipath.conf config for fedora 18 invalid

Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 18:37:05 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:53:51PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:44:48AM -0500, Yeela Kaplan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've tested the new patch on fedora 18 vdsm host (created iscsi storage domain, attached, activated) and it works well.
> > Even though multipath.conf no longer uses getuid_callout to recognize the device's wwid,
> > it still knows how to deal with the attribute's existence in the conf file when running multipath command (only output is to stdout which we don't use anyway, stderr empty and rc=0). 
> > The relevant patch is: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/10824/
> 
> Given your verification, and the fact that this patch is a step forward,
> I've taken it into vdsm master and acked it for ovirt-3.2. I trust Ben
> Marzinski to shout at us loudly if keeping the outdated verb is terribly
> wrong.

There's no harm at all in using invalid keywords in multipath.conf.  It
just prints a warning message.

> 
> I'd expect to see a future patch, adding getuid_callout only for
> multipath versions that actually need it.



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