[dm-devel] How dm multipath handle IO

Nicolas Michel be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 06:26:55 UTC 2014


Wonderfull. Thank you. I did google it but never found that doc ;)


2014-03-14 10:12 GMT+01:00 Akira Hayakawa <ruby.wktk at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Let's google it.
> Is this the article you are looking for?
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v2-pages-235-244.pdf
>
> --
> Akira
>
> On 3/14/14 5:44 PM, Nicolas Michel wrote:
> > Hello Guys,
> >
> > It's a general question about how dm and particularly multipathd handle
> IO? I mean, is it a transaction? Is each IO initiated from the OS get back
> an acknowledgement? If it is, is there a retry mechanism?
> > Or are the IO sent blindingly to the block device?
> >
> > If someone have some good article on it, I would be very interested in
> understanding more deeply how IO are handled.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
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> > Nicolas MICHEL
> >
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