Bug#782488: multipath-tools: updates for compatibility with property blacklist

[Serge Cohen]

Hello,

I am also affected by this bug with a device which by defaults is always seen has belonging to the blacklist since it does not have a proper SCSI_IDENT.* udev property.

I have not tested the patch since I found a fast work around and not having much time right now, but what is described in the email attached to the bug would definitely solve the issue. The current work around I have is to add the ID_SERIAL in the property of blacklist_exceptions as such :

blacklist_exceptions {
        wwid                    XXXXXXXXXX
        ## property "(ID_WWN|SCSI_IDENT_.*)"
        property "(ID_WWN|SCSI_IDENT_.*|ID_SERIAL)"
}

For this workaround to be fully function I also had to perform a update_initramfs (so it is accounted for during boot).

Clearly it would be much better that udeb is already adding the expected SCSI_IDENT_* properties to SCSI devices as proposed in patch with bug #782487 (sg3-utils: provide udev rules for multipath-tools)

Is it possible to raise the severity level of this bug to make it RC, and is there a chance that both bugs (782487 and 782488) are solved before the release so that the installation on systems relying on multipath would not require workaround to be functional ?

Thank you very much for all the work already done.

Serge.

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