[dm-devel] [multipath-tools][PATCH] two small fixes
Christophe Varoqui
christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Fri Sep 30 15:57:47 UTC 2005
>
> For dmsetup status:
>
> ess15-5320: 0 6835968 multipath 1 0 0 1 1 A 0 2 1 8:0 A 0 x 8:16 A 0 x
> ^
>
> The 1 after the number of paths means the path selector will write 1
> additional piece of information
> after the default output of each path. (e.g. <device> <state> <failcount>
> <something>)
> The current code expects these data only once after all paths have been
> written but it has to skip
> these data for every path. The round-robin slector doesn't use any data
> per path so the current
> logic work but as soon as it is used you would fail to get the current
> state.
>
ok, thank you for the detailled answer.
I will apply the patch then.
Regards,
cvaroqui
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