[dm-devel] fedora/rh: is hp_tur checker still needed?

Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 04:01:32 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:12:21PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> Doc says:
> On some storage devices, if a LUN is deleted from an existing multipathd
> device, and a new LUN is presented to the host, it may end up with the
> same LUN ID and name as the old LUN. In this case, multipath will assume
> that this is the old LUN and belongs to the existing multipath device.
> This cause cause corruption. A new path checker "hp_tur" has been added
> that verifies the WWID of the LUN when it checks the path, to avoid this
> problem.
> Code: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/device-mapper-multipath.git/plain/0007-RH-add-hp_tur-checker.patch


No. Nothing has used it for a while.

-Ben




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