Hi, Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (2015-11-30): > Dear maintainers, > > An update in the multipath-tools, [1], changed the naming scheme for > mpath aliases created when the user friendly names option is specified. > > The alias naming changed from mpath0 to mpatha replacing the numeric > digits with alphabetic letters. The patch below updates the > disk-detect.sh to correctly detect multipath devices with the new > naming scheme. AFAICT from the current manpage, when this option is not specified, WWID are used instead, so there's no need to keep the [0-9] part in the check, right? This seems confirmed by my reading of #806900 so I think I'll push the patch to master right away. > On the people/cyphermox/mpath-detect branch in the d-i/hw-detect > repository, there is already a patch for the same problem. I could > not find a bug report for it. So that's why I am opening this one to > keep this problem in mind. It would be great if you could help me to > understand the practice on how such problem fixes becomes integrated. Unfortunately lack of manpower means patches are sometimes not reviewed or merged for a long time. :( > Apart from the disk-detect package, the partman-multipath package is > also affected by mpath naming change. I will open a separate bug report > and attach a patch to solve the naming there. I'll try and look at the various patches after Mathieu's reply in #806900. I might even propose them through proposed-updates if the next RC looks good for multipath support. KiBi.
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