[dm-devel] 2.6.2-udm2

Joe Thornber thornber at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 11:27:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:41PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2004-02-18T08:01:22,
>    Patrick Mansfield <patmans at us.ibm.com> said:
> 
> > Allowing suspend on no paths available also makes dm multipath very useful
> > for single path cases where we want to allow hot replacement of the
> > transport without having to umount or shutdown users of the disk.  
> > 
> > For example, if you need to replace a failing cable.
> 
> DM quiescing (or however that is spelled) can already do that, no?

The problem is you should have loaded a new table before you call
quiesce.

- Joe




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