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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"> Recently I encountered a problem, In certain scenarios that a new local disk was hot plugged, I have no way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">to obtain the wwn of the disk in advance, so I can not filter that disk by adding it to blacklists. Actually there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">is no need for multipathd to take over local disks in the hot-plugged sceno. And find_multipaths param seems not to be
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">a perfect way to solve this problem. Is there any way to provide a param in /etc/multipath.conf for mulitpathd to manage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">only ISCSI or FC bus disks? In that configuration, path_discovery() will only scan devices which were underline ISCSI bus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">or FC bus in sysfs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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