From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Stair Subject: Re: multipath features Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:53:07 -0700 Message-ID: <453FCEB3.7000507@ilm.com> References: <1121230D3E3B6B4E9162069832D90A64292861@XYUS-EX22.xyus.xyratex.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1121230D3E3B6B4E9162069832D90A64292861@XYUS-EX22.xyus.xyratex.com> 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 Check multipath.conf.annotated in the source. This will retry n times before failing. no_path_retry {n} I have repeatable issues with setting this higher than about 3-5 however, where IO queues (more like blocks) forever, even after failing the path back... requiring a reboot, and resulting in data corruption. YMMV. /eli Peter Koutoupis wrote: > I cannot seem to find an answer for this no matter where I look, but if > I wanted to queue all IO if there was no path for a LIMITED time before > it eventually times out, does a feature exist? Currently I am using "1 > queue_if_no_path" but the last thing I want is for a path to be > unavailable and have it consume all host resources until the host cannot > handle it anymore. Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Peter Koutoupis > Systems Engineer > Xyratex International, Inc. > 1804 Centre Point Circle > Suite 112 > Naperville, IL 60563 USA > (630)364-7656 > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel >