Re: [PATCH 4/5] multipath-tools: clarify user_friendly_names prefix behavior in multipath.conf.5

Martin Wilck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2026-06-13 at 15:09 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Clarify that the alias prefix depends on the alias_prefix setting.
> 
> Cc: Martin Wilck <[email protected]>
> Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <[email protected]>
> Cc: DM_DEVEL-ML <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]>
> ---
>  multipath/multipath.conf.5.in | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> b/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> index 9289b244..74447f8c 100644
> --- a/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> +++ b/multipath/multipath.conf.5.in
> @@ -704,11 +704,13 @@ The default is: \fBunused\fR
>  .B user_friendly_names
>  If set to
>  .I yes
> -, using the bindings file \fI@STATE_DIR@/bindings\fR to assign a
> persistent
> -and unique alias to the multipath, in the form of mpath<n>. If set
> to
> +, the bindings file \fI@STATE_DIR@/bindings\fR is used to assign a
> persistent
> +and unique alias to the multipath, in the form of \fIprefix\fR<n>
> (where
> +\fIprefix\fR is defined by \fIalias_prefix\fR; by default
> \IBmpath<n>\fR).

I think this should be "\fImpath\fR".

Martin
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