--- multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: multipath-tools-130222/multipath/multipath.conf.5 =================================================================== --- multipath-tools-130222.orig/multipath/multipath.conf.5 +++ multipath-tools-130222/multipath/multipath.conf.5 @@ -240,18 +240,21 @@ Specify any device-mapper features to be .I num list where .I num -is the number of features in +is the number, between 0 and 6, of features in .I list. -Possible values for the feature list are +Possible values for the feature list are: .RS .TP 12 -.B queue_if_no_path +.I queue_if_no_path Queue IO if no path is active; identical to the .I no_path_retry keyword. .TP -.B no_partitions -Disable automatic partitions generation via kpartx. +.I pg_init_retries +Number of times to retry pg_init, it must be between 1 and 50. +.TP +.I pg_init_delay_msecs +Number of msecs before pg_init retry, it must be between 0 and 60000. .RE .TP .B path_checker @@ -511,6 +514,45 @@ If set to .I yes , kpartx will not automatically create partitions on the device. The default is .I no +.TP +.B ignore_new_boot_devs +If set to +.I yes +, multipath will never attempt to create a multipath device whose wwid is not +listed in /etc/multipath/wwids, while running in the initramfs. This keeps +multipath from adding new devices during the initramfs portion of bootup. The +default is +.I no +.TP +.B retrigger_tries +This sets how many times multipathd will reissue change uevents on block +devices that are not blacklisted, but have no wwid set by udev. Multipath +assumes that any devices that should not report a wwid are blacklisted. This +means that if a non-blacklisted device has no wwid, it is likely that udev +timed out while processing it. Multipathd will wait for a while, and then +reissue a change uevent to give udev another chance to set the wwid. The +default is +.I 3 +.TP +.B retrigger_delay +This sets how long multipathd should wait, after receiving a uevent for a +non-blacklisted device without a wwid set by udev, before reissuing a +change uevent. The goal of this delay is to give udev a chance to finish +processing its current batch of uevents before sending more, to hopefully +avoid it timing out. The default is +.I 10 +.TP +.B new_bindings_in_boot +If set to +.I yes +, multipath will allow new user_friendly_names bindings to be created while +running in the initramfs. Otherwise, multipath will not create +user_friendly_names bindings while running in the initramfs. Instead, it will +use the WWID for the name of a device that was configured to use +user_friendly_names. When multipathd is restarted later in boot on the +regular filesystem, the device will be renamed to a user_friendly_name. The +default is +.I no . .SH "blacklist section" The @@ -603,6 +645,8 @@ section: .TP .B flush_on_last_del .TP +.B user_friendly_names +.TP .B no_path_retry .TP .B rr_min_io @@ -697,6 +741,8 @@ section: .TP .B no_path_retry .TP +.B user_friendly_names +.TP .B rr_min_io .TP .B rr_min_io_rq