[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-mpath: always return reservation conflict

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Thu Jul 16 14:40:34 UTC 2015


On 07/16/2015 09:54 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:07:03AM +0000, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
>> For reference the opensvc crm does use type 5 pr, and aims for all paths
>> registered. It still does not make use of the multipathd pr janitoring
>> features, and uses sg_persist directly for pr status and actions.
> 
> The type doesn't matter here.  It's important to set the ALL_TG_PT bit
> when registering the key.  As dm-mpath opens the underlying devices
> exclusively, and doesn't give you a choice which path to send to you're
> in a world of pain without that.
> 
Second that.

I would even put this in the manpage somewhere.

Cheers,

Hannes
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