[PATCH v2 7/8] multipath-tools: clarify user_friendly_names prefix behavior in multipath.conf.5

Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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]>
---
v2: fix copy-paste typo and delete <n>, changing "\IBmpath<n>\fR"
    to "\fImpath\fR" (spotted by Martin)

 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 de6c21b5..165d3df3 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 \fImpath\fR).
+If set to
 .I no
-use the WWID as the alias. In either case this be will
-be overridden by any specific aliases in the \fImultipaths\fR section.
+, the WWID is used as the alias. In either case, this will be overridden
+by any specific aliases defined in the \fImultipaths\fR section.
 .RS
 .TP
 The default is: \fBno\fR
-- 
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