README

	multipath-tools for Linux <http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/>


This package provides the following binaries to drive the Device Mapper
multipathing driver:

multipath - Device mapper target autoconfig.
multipathd - Multipath daemon.
mpathpersist - Manages SCSI persistent reservations on dm multipath devices.
kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables.


Releases
========
Tarballs are not generated anymore, to get a specific release do:
git clone https://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git
cd multipath-tools
git tag
git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=multipath-tools-X.Y.Z/ X.Y.Z > ../multipath-tools-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

Alternatively it may be obtained from gitweb, go to:
https://git.opensvc.com/?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=tags
select a release-tag and then click on "snapshot". Or get it with
wget "https://git.opensvc.com/?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=snapshot;sf=tgz;h=refs/tags/X.Y.Z" -O multipath-tools-X.Y.Z.tar.gz


Source code
===========
To get latest devel code: git clone https://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git
Gitweb: https://git.opensvc.com/?p=multipath-tools/.git


Add storage devices
===================
Follow the instructions in the libmultipath/hwtable.c header.


Mailing list (subscribers-only)
============
To subscribe and archives: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
Searchable: https://marc.info/?l=dm-devel


Changelog
=========
pre-0.4.5: https://web.archive.org/web/20070309224034/http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=ChangeLog
post-0.4.5: https://git.opensvc.com/?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=log


Maintainer
==========
Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com>
Device-mapper development mailing list <dm-devel@redhat.com>

Licence
=======
The multipath-tools source code is covered by several different
licences. Refer to the individual source files for details.
Source files which do not specify a licence are shipped under
LGPL-2.0 (see LICENSES/LGPL-2.0).