From 2951e5a3069f4ff6f53afc817bf6c8b169037288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:27:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] scst: Update ALUA documentation

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/scst/svn/trunk@3513 d57e44dd-8a1f-0410-8b47-8ef2f437770f
---
 scst/README | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scst/README b/scst/README
index 9822d9f83..65735fdfb 100644
--- a/scst/README
+++ b/scst/README
@@ -1335,6 +1335,20 @@ of the device mapper. You will have to modify at least the following in
 /etc/multipath.conf:
 * path_checker scsi_dh_alua
 * prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_alua /dev/%n"
+
+If your distribution does not provide a /sbin/mpath_prio_alua script, you can
+use the following implementation:
+$ cat /sbin/mpath_prio_alua
+#!/bin/bash
+# Given a SCSI device node, query the target port group asymmetric access
+# state and report it in numeric form.
+tpg_id="$(sg_vpd --page=di "$1" | sed -n 's/.*Target port group: //p')"
+aas="$(sg_rtpg "$1" \
+| grep -A1 "target port group id : $tpg_id" \
+| tail -n 1 \
+| sed 's/.*target port group asymmetric access state : //')"
+echo $((aas))
+
 More information about how to configure the device mapper and the scsi_dh_alua
 driver can be found in the manual of your Linux distribution.