1 .TH MULTIPATH 8 "July 2006" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
3 multipath \- Device mapper target autoconfig
11 .RB [\| \-h | \-l | \-ll | \-f | \-t | \-F | \-B | \-c | \-q | \|-r | \-w | \-W \|]
13 .BR failover | multibus | group_by_serial | group_by_prio | group_by_node_name \|]
17 is used to detect and coalesce multiple paths to devices, for fail-over or performance reasons.
21 verbosity, print all paths and multipaths
28 print the created or updated multipath names only, for use to feed other tools like kpartx
31 print all info : detected paths, coalesced paths (ie multipaths) and device maps
38 dry run, do not create or update devmaps
41 show the current multipath topology from information fetched in sysfs and the device mapper
44 show the current multipath topology from all available information (sysfs, the device mapper, path checkers ...)
47 flush a multipath device map specified as parameter, if unused
50 flush all unused multipath device maps
53 print internal hardware table to stdout
59 treat the bindings file as read only
61 .B \-b " bindings_file"
62 set user_friendly_names bindings file location. The default is
63 /etc/multipath/bindings
66 check if a block device should be a path in a multipath device
69 allow device tables with queue_if_no_path when multipathd is not running
72 remove the wwid for the specified device from the wwids file
75 reset the wwids file to only include the current multipath devices
78 force new maps to use the specified policy:
82 1 path per priority group
85 all paths in 1 priority group
88 1 priority group per serial
91 1 priority group per priority value. Priorities are determined by callout programs specified as a global, per-controller or per-multipath option in the configuration file
94 1 priority group per target node name. Target node names are fetched
95 in /sys/class/fc_transport/target*/node_name.
98 Existing maps are not modified.
101 update only the devmap specified by
108 a path associated with the desired devmap; the path may be in one of the following formats:
116 .BR multipath.conf (5),
123 was developed by Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com> and others.