[dm-devel] Pathvec messages

[Sajesh Singh]

Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:34:47PM -0400, Sajesh Singh wrote:
>   
>>  
>>    Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:51:42PM -0400, Sajesh Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Whenever I run the multipath -v3 command on a EL 5 server I see the
>>  following line in the output for each device.
>>
>>  sdc: not found in pathvec
>>
>>
>>  This simply means that the device is not already stored in multipath's
>>  in memory list of discovered paths. It's completely normal to see this
>>  for your all your devices when running the multipath command.
>>
>>  -Ben
>>
>>
>>
>>    That being said, when does the device make it into the memory list of
>>    discovered paths ?
>>     
>
> Immediately after multipath realizes that it's not there.  In
> multipathd, which uses the same code, you will see this when multipath
> first spots a new device.  After that, the device will be list of
> discovered paths. 
>
> -Ben
>   
So running multipath -v3 multiple times and seeing the output of "not 
found in pathvec" is merely informational?
>  
>   
>>  I have seen questions on this before, but no answer as to what this means.
>>  Is the message merely information or does the multipath configuration need
>>  to be changed?
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Sajesh
>>
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