Bug 1417625

Summary: Disable unhelpful multipathd service
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component: distributionAssignee: Václav Pavlín <vpavlin>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 26CC: dennis, kevin
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Description Marko Myllynen 2017-01-30 13:02:00 UTC
Description of problem:
multipathd.service is enabled by default on Workstation, although a no-op without configuration I think it might be better to disable it to make it clear for everyone no such service is being started on Workstation.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2017-02-18 16:19:51 UTC
This was added as part of: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/391
(6 years ago now). 

As you note it doesn't do anything if there's no /etc/mutipath.conf file existing, so not sure how big a deal this is. I guess it really only makes sense to enable on server ( I don't see workstation or cloud needing it). 

Have people been confused by it's presense?

Comment 2 Marko Myllynen 2017-02-20 11:23:02 UTC
(In reply to Kevin Fenzi from comment #1)
> 
> As you note it doesn't do anything if there's no /etc/mutipath.conf file
> existing, so not sure how big a deal this is. I guess it really only makes
> sense to enable on server ( I don't see workstation or cloud needing it). 
> 
> Have people been confused by it's presense?

Not really, but some users tend to try to sure that their installation/image has the minimal set of required services enabled and something multipathd in workstation/cloud is a bit of surprising then. Thanks.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 11:08:15 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

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