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font-family:Arial'>I found this in an old thread and want to confirm as it will
influence how/what we include in multipath.conf</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Is the following order of preference accurate? </span></font></p>
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size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1) Multipaths section (in /etc/multipath.conf)</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2) Device section (in /etc/multipath.conf)</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3) Defaults section (in /etc/multipath.conf)</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4) Internal default (hwtable.c)</span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If so; then inclusions in the default section; such as setting multibus as the path grouping policy; would adversely affect any active / passive array definitions in hwtable.c. </span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There really should be more guidance concerning these matters. Is this documented somewhere?</span></font></pre><pre><font
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font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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