[dm-devel] [RFC] How to fix system stall on root volume multipath

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Sat Nov 10 03:31:13 UTC 2007


On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:17:19PM -0500, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> If we use multipath for "/", temporal all-paths failure could lead to
> system stall because multipathd depends on callout programs on "/".
> I would like to hear your comments about my idea to fix it.
 
I thought it avoided that problem by pre-loading everything into a ramdisk:
did that code get dropped for some reason?

Alasdair
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