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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] How to fix system stall on root volume multipath
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:31:13 +0000
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:17:19PM -0500, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> If we use multipath for "/", temporal all-paths failure could lead to
> system stall because multipathd depends on callout programs on "/".
> I would like to hear your comments about my idea to fix it.
 
I thought it avoided that problem by pre-loading everything into a ramdisk:
did that code get dropped for some reason?

Alasdair
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