[dm-devel] [BUG] multipath-tools: missing internal values (multipath -t)

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:10:09AM +0200, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
>    Hi,
>    The config outputed should be usable, so a comment could be printed for
>    the keywords you suggest printing <undef> as the default for.
>    Example:
>    # no_path_retry <comment explaining the contextual default behaviour>
>    or simply
>    # no_path_retry <contextual, see man page>

Makes sense.

Thanks
-Ben

>    On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Benjamin Marzinski
>    <[1]bmarzins at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 04:26:06PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > These values:
> 
>      What do you think of these?
>      > no_path_retry
> 
>      The default if no_path_retry is set is to use the features line to
>      determine what to do when there are no paths. we could have it
>      print something like
> 
>      no_path_retry <undef>
> 
>      > dev_loss_tmo
> 
>      The default here is to keep whatever the sysfs value currently is. We
>      could print
> 
>      dev_loss_tmo <undef>
> 
>      or
> 
>      dev_loss_tmo <sysfs>
> 
>      or something else. I'm open to ideas.
> 
>      > reservation_key
> 
>      The default here is nothing
> 
>      reservation_key <undef>
> 
>      probably makes the most sense
> 
>      > partition_delimite
> 
>      The default here is an empty string
> 
>      partition_delm ""
> 
>      is probably the right answer.
> 
>      > delay_watch_checks
>      > delay_wait_checks
> 
>      These clearly have well defined default values and should be set.
> 
>      -Ben
>      > are missing from the "defaults section" of multipath -t output.
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