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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: what is the current utility in testing active paths
	from multipat hd?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:37:31 +0200
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On 2005-04-27T12:27:32, "goggin, edward" <egoggin@emc.com> wrote:

> Although I know it sounds a bit radical and counter intuitive,
> but I'm not sure of the utility gained in the current multipathing
> implementation by multipathd periodically testing paths which
> are known to be in an active state in the multipath target driver.
> Possibly someone can convince me otherwise.

Ed, I misread your mail and missed the point. Your more succinct summary
on the conf call today made it all clear to me; indeed this doesn't just
need optimization, it needs fixing...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D156280


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e <lmb@suse.de>

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