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Bug 1386360

Summary:	Document new multipath option to disable kpartx partition creation
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Steven J. Levine <slevine>
Component:	doc-DM_Multipath	Assignee:	Steven J. Levine <slevine>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.3	CC:	adstrong, agk, bmarzins, dwysocha, heinzm, lherbolt, lilin, msnitzer, prajnoha, prockai, rbalakri, rhel-docs, salmy, zkabelac
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1311659
Clones:	1388229 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-11-07 21:18:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1310320, 1311659
Bug Blocks:	1388229

Comment 2 Steven J. Levine 2016-10-18 18:25:40 UTC

Ben: I'm just seeing this for the first time. I might be able to sneak this in to 7.3 with the week delay, but I'm not sure.

Question:  Should I add this option to the configuration parameter tables in the dm-multipath manual?

Comment 3 Ben Marzinski 2016-10-24 17:49:20 UTC

(In reply to Steven J. Levine from comment #2)
> Ben: I'm just seeing this for the first time. I might be able to sneak this
> in to 7.3 with the week delay, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Question:  Should I add this option to the configuration parameter tables in
> the dm-multipath manual?

If you have time, then sure. It belongs in the manual.

Comment 4 Steven J. Levine 2016-10-24 19:27:47 UTC

I have added this parameter to all three configuration option tables of the document, with this description:

skip_kpartx
If set to <literal>yes</literal>, <literal>kpartx</literal>
will not automatically create partitions on the device.
This allows users to create a multipath device without creating partitions,
even if the device has a partition table. The default value of this option is <literal>no</literal>.

I will clone this for 6.9.