multipath-tools 0.4.9

Here is a long due multipath-tools release.

Most patches in there are already available in enterprise distributions package.

The tarball is available on http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/
My maintainer work on this project is now sponsored by
http://www.opensvc.com and the Nexenta multipath support has been sponsored by http://www.alyseo.com/

multipath-tools-0.4.9 shortlog :

* Changes that may require your altering your config file :
* rename hp_sw hwhandler
* directio is now the default checker (async)
* deprecated prio_callout keyword: now use prio/prio_args
* move bindings file location to /etc
* add 'max_fds' keyword
* add 'verbosity' keyword
* add 'queue_without_daemon' keyword
* add 'mode', 'uid' and 'gid' keywords
* add 'fast_io_fail' and 'dev_loss_tmo' keywords
* add 'checker' keyword as alias to 'path_checker'
* Features
* make kpartx deal with more than 256 minor numbers
* fail/reinstate CLI commands disable/enable path checker
* support multipath-capable cciss hardware, add cciss_tur checker
* 'show config' output usable as a config file replacement
* create read-only multipath if rw try failed
* care about offlined paths
* support resizing of multipath maps
* kpartx removes its loop devices
* support other load-balancing policies
* add datacore prioritizer
* add '-r' multipath arg to force maps reload
* add "show paths format" cli command
* add "show maps format" cli command
* add "show status" cli command
* add "show wildcards" cli command
* add "quit" cli command
* add "enablequeueing" and "disablequeueing" cli commands
* Fixes
* leaks plugged (virtualiron, suse, redhat work)
* honour ALUA preference indicator
* Developers changes :
* no more prioritizer callouts. replaced by mem-pinned .so to avoid having to cache the callouts.
* move checkers to mem-pinned .so too
* allow arguments passing to prioritizers
* Contributors :
* Alex Zeffertt <[email protected]>
* Andrey Panin <[email protected]>
* Babu Moger <[email protected]>
* Benjamin Marzinski <[email protected]>
* Brian King <[email protected]>
* Bryn M.Reeves <[email protected]>
* Chandra Seetharaman <[email protected]>
* Charlie Brady <[email protected]>
* Chauhan, Vijay <[email protected]>
* Christophe Varoqui <[email protected]>
* Colin Watson <[email protected]>
* Dave Wysochanski <[email protected]>
* Guido Guenther <[email protected]>
* Guido Günther <[email protected]>
* Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
* Jim Lester <[email protected]>
* Kiyoshi Ueda <[email protected]>
* Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
* Martin Petermann <[email protected]>
* Matthew Kent <[email protected]>
* Mike Anderson <[email protected]>
* Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
* Moger, Babu <[email protected]>
* Nikanth Karthikesan <[email protected]>
* Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]>
* Rumko <[email protected]>
* Stefan Bader <[email protected]>
* Stefan Haberland <[email protected]>
* Stefan Weinhuber <[email protected]>
* Yanqing Liu <[email protected]>

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I noticed that the git tree does not have the 0.4.9 tag (yet). Could you add it as well?

Thanks for all the work.

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Christof