Bug 1386360 - Document new multipath option to disable kpartx partition creation
Summary: Document new multipath option to disable kpartx partition creation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-DM_Multipath
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Steven J. Levine
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Depends On: 1310320 1311659
Blocks: 1388229
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Reported: 2016-10-18 18:20 UTC by Steven J. Levine
Modified: 2019-03-06 00:39 UTC (History)
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Clone Of: 1311659
: 1388229 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-07 21:18:40 UTC
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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.
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