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From: Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>
Subject: Re: order of preference / multipath.conf
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:14:53 +0100
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* Paul Cote

> Is the following order of preference accurate? 
> 
>  
> 1) Multipaths section (in /etc/multipath.conf)
> 2) Device section   (in /etc/multipath.conf)
> 3) Defaults section (in /etc/multipath.conf)
> 4) Internal default (hwtable.c)

I think maybe that number 3 and 4 is swapped, but don't take my word for
it.  It should be easy to do some tests and figure it out for yourself
by using the "show config" command inside the "multipathd -k" shell with
a few different configuration files.

Regards
-- 
Tore Anderson