[dm-devel] no_path_retry question

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:32:43PM -0700, Dale.R.Fowle at seagate.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all, I have a question on what the retry in the no_path_retry option
> refers to. If we use a number like 60, instead of "fail" or "queue", does
> Multipath Tools retry an IO at one second intervals? Or is this retry based
> off of the SCSI timeout value within the kernel?

It refers to the number of times that multipath will check for a path before
failing. So it is approximately no_path_retry * polling_interval seconds.

-Ben
> 
> Thanks,
> Dale
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