[dm-devel] alias multipath by fibre channel AL_PA instead of wwid?

[Hannes Reinecke]

Am Wed 12 Sep 2007 03:56:59 AM CEST schrieb David Strand <dpstrand at gmail.com>:

> I see that multipath persistant link options are very dependent on knowing
> the disk wwid. In my setup, I will not know wwid but each drive is hardware
> strapped to obtain a hard AL_PA (disks are on a fibre channel arbitrated
> loop). Is there a way to setup alias names based on this information without
> knowing the wwid?
>

Not yet. But you can just write your own getuid program which returns  
the AL_PA ID instead of the disks WWID.

Cheers,

Hannes
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