[dm-devel] 2.6.10-rc1-udm1: multipath work in progress

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Mon Nov 8 14:43:41 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:46:12AM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Couldn't that goal be reached by simply giving path-groups a priority 
> number?

The original model had that - but then we decided to simplify
everything into an ordered list.

> If you add an message to change priority numbers any tool can change 
> the behaviour and even force to switch to any group.

I think that would be more complicated to manage and implement.
[How do you reference the PGs to change their priorities?]

Alasdair
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