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Bug 1981240

Summary: RFE: have mpathconf handle options as well (e.g. find_multipaths_timeout)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Renaud Métrich <rmetrich>
Component: device-mapper-multipathAssignee: Ben Marzinski <bmarzins>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Lin Li <lilin>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 8.4CC: agk, bmarzins, heinzm, lilin, loberman, msnitzer, prajnoha, zkabelac
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-22.el8 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Feature: mpathconf can now add, change, or remove any /etc/mulitpath.conf defaults section option using the new --option command Reason: Some users want a command to update /etc/multipath.conf without having to edit the file manually. Result: Users no longer need to manually edit /etc/multipath.conf to add, change or remove defaults section options.
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: 2050421 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-05-10 15:21:50 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 2050421    

Description Renaud Métrich 2021-07-12 06:58:16 UTC
Description of problem:

This is a continuation of BZ #1979470. It would be nice if mpathconf could let the user specify options, in this particular case find_multipaths_timeout.
Indeed it's not easy to automate this task using a sed script and doing this cleanly, the only solution I see is using an additional drop-in file /etc/multipath.conf.d/xxx.conf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-10.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:

N/A

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 15:21:50 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (device-mapper-multipath bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2036