[dm-devel] [PATCH 10/10] set retrigger_tries to 0 for multipath

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 10/29/2016 04:55 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:

> Multipathd uses retrigger_tries to give udev more chances to to fill in
> the uid_attribute, so that the path device is correctly set up in the
> udev database. However the multipath command can't do this, so it should
> just immediately give up on udev, and try to get the wwid directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> ---
>  multipath/main.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c
> index ee00fdb..06add30 100644
> --- a/multipath/main.c
> +++ b/multipath/main.c
> @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
>  	if (!conf)
>  		exit(1);
>  	multipath_conf = conf;
> +	conf->retrigger_tries = 0;
>  	while ((arg = getopt(argc, argv, ":adchl::FfM:v:p:b:BritquwW")) != EOF ) {
>  		switch(arg) {
>  		case 1: printf("optarg : %s\n",optarg);
> 

I don't know how, but this patch(?) is overwriting the default value:

libmultipath/defaults.h:#define DEFAULT_RETRIGGER_TRIES 3
libmultipath/config.c:  conf->retrigger_tries = DEFAULT_RETRIGGER_TRIES;

# multipath -t
defaults {
[...]
        retrigger_tries 0
[...]
}
[...]