From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: New multipath-tools release? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:16:19 +0200 Message-ID: <46AF5243.2080102@suse.de> References: <46A72D1B.1040408@suse.de> <20070728161353.GA21276@bogon.ms20.nix> <46ADFA63.9020403@suse.de> <20070731071830.GA15099@bogon.ms20.nix> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070731071830.GA15099@bogon.ms20.nix> 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 Cc: christophe varoqui List-Id: dm-devel.ids Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:49:07PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> In priciple a good idea. However, I do have some to-do items on my lis= t >> yet: >> >> - netlink messages: The FC transport class has a netlink interface >> nowadays. It may be an idea to utilize this information in to update >> the path status. >> - Enhance path checker. Currently the path checker is run at periodic >> intervals regardless of the path state. This leads to quite some >> load on systems with many paths, even when all paths are healthy. >> We should rather call the path checker only if a path has failed, >> as we're being notified by a failed path soon enough via I/O errors. >> And we might even be using the netlink events from FC here, too. >> > My point exactly: let's tag a new stable version and add these nice > things to the (then) next release. I think the stability of the master > branch improved quiet a bit during the last couple of commits, It'd be > nice to have this out of the door for distributions to build upon befor= e > doing more intrusive changes again. (Ah, so there is an RHEL update coming :-) But yes, you are right. Putting out a new version before adding those is probably a good thing. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg)