Bug#645247: multipath-tools: output from `multipath -lld' does not separate fields

[Tsouladze, Andy]

Ritesh,

Of course.

Thanks,

Andy
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From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf [rrs at researchut.com] On Behalf Of Ritesh Raj Sarraf [rrs at debian.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:22 PM
To: Tsouladze, Andy; 645247 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#645247: multipath-tools: output from `multipath -lld' does not separate fields

Hello Andy,


Will you be able to test for me? I can provide you a deb.


Ritesh


On 10/14/2011 01:01 AM, Tsouladze, Andy wrote:
> Package: multipath-tools
> Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2
>
> Problem description:  When runing `multipath -lld', I get the following output:
>
> # multipath -lld
> 350002ac60aeb0abbdm-1 3PARdata,VV
> [size=45G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active]
>  \_ 15:0:0:1 sdf 8:80  [active][ready]
>  \_ 14:0:0:1 sde 8:64  [active][ready]
>
> In this output, device name "350002ac60aeb0abb" and "dm-1" are spliced together, with no space between them.  It probably depends on the length of the device name.  This makes scripting quite difficult.
>
> I did talk with Christophe Varoqui.  He is sure that this bug has been fixed upstream in 0.4.9, and he suggested to ask Debian maintainers to backport it to lenny.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Dr Andy Tsouladze
> Sr Unix/Storage SysAdmin
>
>


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