[dm-devel] pg failback

Christophe Varoqui christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Tue Jun 21 14:09:48 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:46:34PM +0200, christophe varoqui wrote:
> On lun, 2005-06-20 at 14:05 -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> > Two things with path group failback seem flawed right now.
> > 
> > (1) Looks like it might be possible for a currently disabled path group
> > which is not the highest priority path group to remain disabled even
> > when paths in the group test successfully.  This seems to be possible
> > because the code in switch_pathgroup() called by checkerloop() in
> > multipathd only fails back to the highest priority path group.  Granted
> > that the problem is primarily (__only__) cosmetic since the other group(s)
> > are not being actively used anyway, but it is still misleading to a viewer
> > of
> > "multipath -l" to see disabled path groups which should not be in this
> > state.
> > 
> Yes, this one is on the todo.
> You already raised that point speaking of "kernel/userspace asymmetry"
> if I remember.
> 
Done.

Regards,
cvaroqui




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