Devlabel 0.35.21 is available here.

* Added multipath support. Previously, if attempting to add a symlink to a device which was part of a multipath set, devlabel would not allow this because multiple devices returned the same UUID. Now, this can be avoided by adding symlinks with the --multipath option. This will instruct devlabel to create multiple symlinks named YourSymlinkName_multipath# each pointing to a different path that is part of the multipath set. These symlinks can then be used in /etc/raidtab to create a working multipath device which will not succumb to any device renaming problems. Hence, if /dev/sdd1 and /dev/sde1 were multiple paths to the same device, they can now be referenced as /dev/foo_multipath0 and /dev/foo_multipath1 so even if they became /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 internally, your multipath device would still get created properly from /etc/raidtab since you used the symlink names and not the actual device names.

* Cleaned up how status was returned. It now shows the permissions and ownerships of the underlying device instead of the symlink. As well, raw device status now is of the same format as symlink status.

* Created a make_link function used by add and restart to remove duplication of code

* Devlabel now greps by word boundary instead of looking for a trailing whitespace character (thanks to Todd Martin: todd dot martin at acm dot org)

* I replaced all references of grep -m with equivalent head -1 pipes to accomodate older versions of grep.

* Added coreutils to the requirements of the RPM spec file as readlink is located in coreutils.

* Other minor bug fixes and enhancements.

By Gary at 01:19 PM in Linux | Comments (0)