[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] multipath: Extend program description in manpage

[Frank Meinl]

On 26.09.20 21:02, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 18:29 +0200, Frank Meinl wrote:
>> Add two paragraphs which list some advantages of multipath and
>> explain
>> the benefit for single path devices. The text has been partly
>> composed
>> by Benjamin Marzinski. - Refer to
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-September/msg00431.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Meinl <frank.meinl at live.de>
> 
> Hm, this was not what I meant. multipath(8) is not the man page of the
> dm-multipath kernel feature, it's the man page of the tool "multipath".
> USB disks could just as well be set up using "multipathd". This text is
> too generic and doesn't fit into multipath(8), neither generally nor
> wrt style.
> 
> We don't have a man page about dm-multipath itself, and as nobody has
> asked for it in 15 years, perhaps it's a bit late now to start one.
> 
> I know I asked you to do this, but thinking about it now, if you don't
> mind, let's just leave it at the first patch.
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> 

No problem,
For me it's perfectly fine to ignore this patch. Maybe I was the wrong
person for this job, as I'm practically new to multipath.

Anyhow, if somebody else wants to use this text snippet in a more
appropriate place, please feel free.

  Frank