[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath-tools: multipathd makes offline devices active

[Christophe Varoqui]

On ven, 2005-11-11 at 18:43 -0500, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> multipathd(8) continues calling reinstate_path() in checkerloop(),
> if multipathd(8) is started on the system which has multipath maps
> including offline devices.
> The reason is pp->checkfn() returns -1 for offline devices and
> pp->state of these paths are 1.
> (I'm using "echo offline > /sys/block/sd?/device/state" for the testing.)
> 
> As a result, multipathd(8) makes offline devices active state.
> And this behavior also affects the no_path_retry feature, since 
> struct multipath.nr_active is incremented in reinstate_path().
> 
> The following patch fixes this problem.
> If the return value from pp->checkfn is -1, the path isn't available.
> So I think that we can ignore it.
> 
Looks correct, indeed.
Thanks, applied.

Regards,
cvaroqui