[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] multipath: fix multipathd renaming issue

[Martin Wilck]

On Wed, 2023-02-01 at 09:56 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> If a multipath device needs to be renamed and reloaded when
> multipathd
> starts, it will only get reloaded. This can happen if the multipath
> configuration is different between the initramfs and regular
> filesystem.
> The only thing that can happen along with a rename is a force reload.
> 
> This patchset makes libmultipath also do all the other actions that
> are
> compatible with a rename.
> 
> changes in v2 (as suggested by Martin Wilck)
> 0004: If the rename is impossible, multipath now checks for other
>       actions, instead of always returning ACT_IMPOSSIBLE
> 
> Benjamin Marzinski (4):
>   libmultipath: use select_reload_action in select_action
>   libmultipath: select resize action even if reload is forced
>   libmultipath: cleanup ACT_CREATE code in select_action
>   libmultipath: keep renames from stopping other multipath actions
> 
>  libmultipath/configure.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++--------------------
> --
>  libmultipath/configure.h |   4 +-
>  2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
> 


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Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>