--disks doesn't take into account EMC/Veritas/Hitachi multipath

[ryran]

Yep. That's true.

Let's say you have 65 scsi disks (i.e. /dev/sdaf) on your system -- 64 of which are multipathed devices ...

If the Linux native multipathd is managing all those, xsos will be able to detect the mpath devices (and display info on them) and will hide all the child paths (i.e. the scsi disk paths) from the regular disk printout, leaving the regular disk printout to only show the one local scsi disk.

On the other hand, if all those multipathed disks are provided by some other multipath service like EMC's powerpath, xsos --disks isn't going to know anything about them and the regular disk printout is going to show 65 scsi disks.

I'd obviously like to do something about this but haven't started digging around in any emc/veritas/hdlm sosreports.