[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath-tools: support for coalescing heterogenous paths

2017-08-17 Thread Guan Junxiong
This patch supports coalescing heterogenous paths by using udev rules files. This is useful in the scenario of migrating data for heterogenous arrays without interrupting uplayer transaction. The udev rules file, which is located in the /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory, is automatically generated by mu

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-crypt: limit the number of allocated pages

2017-08-17 Thread John Stoffel
> "Mikulas" == Mikulas Patocka writes: Mikulas> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, John Stoffel wrote: >> > "Mikulas" == Mikulas Patocka writes: >> Mikulas> dm-crypt consumes excessive amount memory when the user attempts to zero Mikulas> a dm-crypt device with "blkdiscard -z". The command "blkdisc

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] multipath-tools: libdmmp: Improve timeout mechanism

2017-08-17 Thread Martin Wilck
On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 20:34 +0800, Gris Ge wrote: > Issue: > libdmmp return error of timeout before user requested timeout was > met. > This happens when multipathd daemon is starting with a lot(1k+) > mpaths. > > Root cause: > The multipath has two timeout settings: > 1. '

[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath-tools: minor edition and corrections in multipath.conf.5

2017-08-17 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
Cc: Christophe Varoqui Cc: device-mapper development Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez --- multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 62 +++--- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 inde