[dm-devel] Problems with multipathing

[James Smart]

Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> Do failover device nodes get reassigned during the rescan ?
> Like, for example, a configured path sda gets removed and a new path sdb 
> appears ?
> If so, the FC transport class is in charge of the timeout triggering the 
> dead devices removal.
> A hardware handler wouldn't help here.

On the kernel rev he's talking about, 2.6.9-34, the FC transport class
doesn't fully exist, so there's no automatic device removal.

-- james