[dm-devel] multipath-tools libcheckers/tur.c libmultipath ...

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:05:25AM -0000, bmarzins at sourceware.org wrote:
> CVSROOT:	/cvs/dm
> Module name:	multipath-tools
> Branch: 	RHEL5_FC6
> Changes by:	bmarzins at sourceware.org	2009-04-21 00:05:24
> 
> Modified files:
> 	libcheckers    : tur.c 
> 	libmultipath   : discovery.c discovery.h 
> 	multipathd     : main.c 
> 	path_priority/pp_alua: rtpg.c 
> 
> Log message:
> 	Fix for bz 472451.  This fixes two issues. First, it keeps multipathd from checking
> 	scsi paths in the "blocked" state, since multipathd will just hang until the device
> 	times out. Second, the tur checker retrys on a few more error codes that could happen
> 	during transient path failures.
> 

Is there any interest having this upstream in 0.4.9, given that the
path checking method is going to be changing? I'm not sure how soon all
of those changes will be in place.  Christophe, if you want me to port
this upstream, just let me know.

-Ben