Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 9 > multipath-tools

Step in the multipath-tools package. multipath-tools is an Open Source project to implement I/O multipathing at the OS level. The project delivers hooks with the standard Linux device mapper. A user-space daemon monitors the configured path and switches from one path to another according to the parameters set at configuration time. The main site of the multipath-tools package is christophe.varoqui.free.fr. Currently, the package features kernel modules as well as a user-space path-checker daemon. A command line interface will be available with multipath-tools-0.4.6 that allows runtime changes and status queries. The multipath-tools package provides the following functionality.