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From: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Subject: Re: Problems with multipathing
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:24:34 -0400
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Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> Do failover device nodes get reassigned during the rescan ?
> Like, for example, a configured path sda gets removed and a new path sdb 
> appears ?
> If so, the FC transport class is in charge of the timeout triggering the 
> dead devices removal.
> A hardware handler wouldn't help here.

On the kernel rev he's talking about, 2.6.9-34, the FC transport class
doesn't fully exist, so there's no automatic device removal.

-- james