Comment 3 for bug 1887558

I looked at adding support for multipath on IBM Z. In that case each LPAR has access to mutlipath devices from all other LPARs. There is no way to locally determine which multipath device is for which LPAR, nor is there a way to determine if any are in use. IBM told me that its expected that a storage administrator tells users which multipath device to use. They were adding an API to get that information but it would still be configured manually in the JBOD.

The code for storage is in various places and would require alot of work to add multipath support

* Storage data actually comes from LXD - https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/lxd/resources/storage.go
* The data is processed in the metadata server - https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/src/metadataserver/builtin_scripts/hooks.py
* It has to be modeled. We model block devices and physical block devices. For multipath we'd most likely need to design a new model - https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/src/maasserver/models
* The API would have to be updated to interact with the new model - https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/src/maasserver/api/blockdevices.py
* The websocket would also have to be updated - https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/src/maasserver/websockets/handlers/node.py
* The preseed, which generates Curtin config, would require changes - https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/src/maasserver/preseed_storage.py
* We'd also want to update the UI to show that this is a multipath device - https://github.com/canonical-web-and-design/maas-ui