From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Marzinski Subject: Re: no_path_retry question Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:17:16 -0600 Message-ID: <20070202021716.GA3141@ether.msp.redhat.com> References: Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:32:43PM -0700, Dale.R.Fowle@seagate.com wrote: > > Hi all, I have a question on what the retry in the no_path_retry option > refers to. If we use a number like 60, instead of "fail" or "queue", does > Multipath Tools retry an IO at one second intervals? Or is this retry based > off of the SCSI timeout value within the kernel? It refers to the number of times that multipath will check for a path before failing. So it is approximately no_path_retry * polling_interval seconds. -Ben > > Thanks, > Dale > > > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel