Updating device-mapper-multipath ignores "user_friendly_names" for PURE FlashArray storage.

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Issue

  • Updating device-mapper-multipath ignores user_friendly_names for PURE FlashArray storage.
# before updating system.
mpathb (3624a937053b2201cae784ad30001171d)  dm-0 PURE    ,FlashArray
size=2.0T features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='queue-length 0' prio=0 status=active
  |- 2:0:0:1 sdf 8:80  active undef running
  |- 2:0:1:1 sdh 8:112 active undef running
  |- 3:0:0:1 sde 8:64  active undef running
  |- 3:0:1:1 sdg 8:96  active undef running

# after updating the system.
3624a937053b2201cae784ad30001171d  dm-0 PURE    ,FlashArray
size=2.0T features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='queue-length 0' prio=0 status=active
  |- 2:0:0:1 sdf 8:80  active undef running
  |- 2:0:1:1 sdh 8:112 active undef running
  |- 3:0:0:1 sde 8:64  active undef running
  |- 3:0:1:1 sdg 8:96  active undef running

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10, 7.3
    • device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-99.el7.x86_64 or higher version.
    • device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-106.el6 or higher version.

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