Jonathan Dobson

IMO, this might just be considered a bug fix. /lgtm /ok-to-test /assign @mattcary for approval

/remove-lifecycle rotten

/reopen /remove-lifecycle rotten There's still interest in this from sig-storage but it depends on some kernel changes being made to support this enhancement. I started a draft KEP here to...

> remove tag from cluster if you want specific host within cluster to be part of az or remove tag from host, if you want all hosts to be part...

/hold I'm considering other approaches after experimenting with other CSI drivers

> @dobsonj @divyenpatel I'm wondering if there has been any progress on this front? I have a scenario where we may not be able to disable `multipathd` to get the...

> the correct solution might be instead be to fail in NodeStageVolume as we have in aws-ebs and gcp-pd today We discussed this in the CSI meeting yesterday and agreed...

Hey @jrife, I rebased and tested a new commit to use the `FormatAndMount` function from mountutils, same as the other drivers, and it did not fail in NodeStageVolume. On gcp-pd...

> Hi @dobsonj. Thanks for following up. This is interesting. Do you mean that FormatAndMount works fine on vSphere disks even when the devices are claimed by multipathd? Yes, that's...

One notable difference from that log output, is that the vsphere driver formats and mounts `/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x6000c29fd7f46ef9daf1ee03307dc9d6` which is symlinked to `/dev/dm-0`, and it succeeds. In contrast, aws-ebs uses `/dev/nvme1n1` and...