https://github.com/opensvc/multipath-tools
This package provides the following binaries to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver:
- multipath - Device mapper target autoconfig.
- multipathc - Interactive client for multipathd.
- multipathd - Multipath daemon.
- mpathpersist - Manages SCSI persistent reservations on dm multipath devices.
- kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables.
To get a specific X.Y.Z release, use one of the following method:
git clone https://github.com/opensvc/multipath-tools.git
cd multipath-tools
git tag
git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=multipath-tools-X.Y.Z/ X.Y.Z > ../multipath-tools-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
wget "https://github.com/opensvc/multipath-tools/archive/X.Y.Z.tar.gz" -O multipath-tools-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
Go to: https://github.com/opensvc/multipath-tools/tags Select a release-tag and then click on "zip" or "tar.gz".
Prerequisites: development packages of for libdevmapper
, libaio
, libudev
,
libjson-c
, liburcu
, and libsystemd
. If commandline editing is enabled
(see below), the development package for either libedit
or libreadline
is
required as well.
Then, build and install multipath-tools with:
make
make DESTDIR="/my/target/dir" install
To uninstall, type:
make uninstall
By default, the build will run quietly, just printing one-line messages
about the files being built. To enable more verbose output, run make V=1
.
Note: With very few exceptions, the build process does not read configuration from the environment. So using syntax like
SOME_VAR=some_value make
will not have the intended effect. Use the following instead:
make SOME_VAR=some_value
See "Passing standard compiler flags" below for an exception.
The following variables can be passed to the make
command line:
-
V=1
: enable verbose build. -
plugindir="/some/path"
: directory where libmultipath plugins (path checkers, prioritizers, and foreign multipath support) will be looked up. This used to be the run-time optionmultipath_dir
in earlier versions. The default is$(prefix)/$(LIB)/multipath
, where$(LIB)
islib64
on systems that have/lib64
, andlib
otherwise. -
configfile="/some/path
": The path to the main configuration file. The default is$(etc_prefix)/etc/multipath.conf
. -
configdir="/some/path"
: directory to search for additional configuration files. This used to be the run-time optionconfig_dir
in earlier versions. The default is$(etc_prefix)/etc/multipath/conf.d
. -
statedir="/some/path"
: The path of the directory where multipath-tools stores run-time settings that need persist between reboots, such as known WWIDs, user-friendly names, and persistent reservation keys. The default is$(etc_prefix)/etc/multipath
. -
READLINE=libedit
orREADLINE=libreadline
: enable command line history and TAB completion in the interactive mode (which is entered withmultipathd -k
ormultipathc
). The respective development package will be required for building. By default, command line editing is disabled. Note that using libreadline may make binary indistributable due to license incompatibility. -
ENABLE_LIBDMMP=0
: disable building libdmmp -
ENABLE_DMEVENTS_POLL=0
: disable support for the device-mapper event polling API. For use with pre-5.0 kernels that don't support dmevent polling (but even if you don't use this option, multipath-tools will work with these kernels). -
SYSTEMD
: The version number of systemd (e.g. "244") to compile the code for. The default is autodetected, assuming that the systemd version in the build environment is the same as on the target system. Override the value to build for a different systemd version, or set it to""
to build for a system without systemd. Caution: multipathd without systemd has been largely untested by the upstream maintainers since at least 2020. -
SCSI_DH_MODULES_PRELOAD="(list)"
: specify a space-separated list of SCSI device handler kernel modules to load early during boot. Some multipath-tools functionality depends on these modules being loaded early. This option causes a modules-load.d(5) configuration file to be created, thus it depends on functionality provided by systemd. This variable only matters formake install
.Note: The usefulness of the preload list depends on the kernel configuration. It's especially useful if
scsi_mod
is builtin butscsi_dh_alua
and other device handler modules are built as modules. Ifscsi_mod
itself is compiled as a module, it might make more sense to use a module softdep for the same purpose by creating amodprobe.d
file like this:softdep scsi_mod post: scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac
prefix
: The directory prefix for (almost) all files to be installed. "Usr-merged" distributions1 may want to set this to/usr
. The default is empty (""
).usr_prefix
: where to install those parts of the code that aren't necessary for booting. The default is/usr
if$(prefix)
is empty, and$(prefix)
otherwise.systemd_prefix
: Prefix for systemd-related files1. The default is/usr
.etc_prefix
: The prefix for configuration files. "usr-merged" distributions with immutable/usr
1 may want to set this to""
. The default is$(prefix)
.LIB
: the subdirectory underprefix
where shared libraries will be installed. By default, the makefile uses/lib64
if this directory is found on the build system, and/lib
otherwise.
The options configdir
, plugindir
, configfile
, and statedir
above can
be used for setting individual paths where the prefix
variables don't provide
sufficient control. See Makefile.inc
for even more fine-grained control.
Use OPTFLAGS
to change optimization-related compiler options;
e.g. OPTFLAGS="-g -O0"
to disable all optimizations.
Contrary to most other variables, the standard variables CFLAGS
,
CPPFLAGS
, and LDFLAGS
must be passed to make via the environment
if they need to be customized:
CPPFLAGS="-D_SECRET_=secret" make
The following targets are intended for developers only.
make test
to build and run the unit testsmake valgrind-test
to run the unit tests under valgrindmake abi
to create an XML representation of the ABI of the libraries in theabi/
subdirectorymake abi-test
to compare the ABI of a different multipath-tools version, which must be stored in thereference-abi/
subdirectory. If this test fails, the ABI has changed wrt the reference.make compile-commands.json
to create input for clangd.
Please send patches or contributions for general discussion about multipath tools to the mailing list (see below). You can also create issues or pull requests on GitHub. You will be asked to send your patches to the mailing list unless your patch is trivial.
The mailing list for multipath-tools is [email protected]
.
To subscribe, send an email to [email protected]
.
Mailing list archives are available on
lore.kernel.org and
marc.info. See also the
lists.linux.dev home page.
When sending patches to the mailing list, please add a Signed-off-by:
tag, and add Benjamin Marzinski [email protected] and
Martin Wilck [email protected] to the Cc list.
Between releases, the latest reviewed code can be obtained from the queue branch in the openSUSE/multipath-tools repository on GitHub. From there, pull requests for new releases in the master repository are created roughly every 3 months.
If you want to add special settings for a storage device which is
new on the market, follow the instructions at the top of the
file libmultipath/hwtable.c
.
- pre-0.4.5: https://web.archive.org/web/20070309224034/http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=ChangeLog
- post-0.4.5: https://github.com/opensvc/multipath-tools/commits/master
Christophe Varoqui [email protected] Device-mapper development mailing list [email protected]
The multipath-tools source code is covered by several different licences.
Refer to the individual source files for details.
Source files which do not specify a licence are shipped under LGPL-2.0
(see LICENSES/LGPL-2.0
).
This is a rough guide, consult your storage device manufacturer documentation.
ALUA is supported in some devices, but usually it's disabled by default. To enable ALUA, the following options should be changed:
-
EMC CLARiiON/VNX: "Failover Mode" should be changed to "4" or "Active-Active mode(ALUA)-failover mode 4"
-
HPE 3PAR, Primera, and Alletra 9000: "Host:" should be changed to "Generic-ALUA Persona 2 (UARepLun, SESLun, ALUA)".
-
Promise VTrak/Vess: "LUN Affinity" and "ALUA" should be changed to "Enable", "Redundancy Type" must be "Active-Active".
-
LSI/Engenio/NetApp RDAC class, as NetApp SANtricity E/EF Series and rebranded arrays: "Select operating system:" should be changed to "Linux DM-MP (Kernel 3.10 or later)".
-
NetApp ONTAP FAS/AFF Series: To check ALUA state: "igroup show -v <igroup_name>", and to enable ALUA: "igroup set <igroup_name> alua yes".
-
Huawei OceanStor: "Host Access Mode" should be changed to "Asymmetric".
NVMe multipath is natively supported by the Linux kernel. If for some reason you prefer using device mapper multipath with NVMe devices, you need to disable native multipathing first:
echo "options nvme_core multipath=N" > /etc/modprobe.d/01-nvme_core-mp.conf
Afterwards, regenerate the initramfs (dracut -f
or update-initramfs
) and reboot.
If native NVMe multipathing is enabled, you can still use multipath-tools
for displaying the topology and some other information about native NVMe
multipath setups. This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, set
enable_foreign nvme
in the defaults
section of multipath.conf
.
Commands like multipath -ll
will then display information about NVMe
native multipath. This support is read-only; modifying the native multipath
configuration is not supported.
Footnotes
-
systemd installations up to v254 which have been built with
split-usr=true
may use separateprefixdir
androotprefixdir
directories, whereprefixdir
is a subdirectory ofrootprefixdir
. multipath-tools'systemd_prefix
corresponds to systemd'sprefixdir
. On such distributions, overrideunitdir
andlibudevdir
to use systemd'srootprefix
:make libudevdir=/lib/udev unitdir=/lib/systemd/system
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