From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: [PATCH 35/42] multipath.conf.5: Clarify dev_loss_tmo settings Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 14:54:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1357653259-62650-36-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> References: <1357653259-62650-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1357653259-62650-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Christophe Varoqui Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids We need to document that dev_loss_tmo is in fact modified by no_path_retry. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke --- multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 index 9d6266c..247cdc0 100644 --- a/multipath/multipath.conf.5 +++ b/multipath/multipath.conf.5 @@ -334,9 +334,14 @@ will disable the timeout. .TP .B dev_loss_tmo Specify the number of seconds the scsi layer will wait after a problem has +<<<<<<< HEAD been detected on a FC remote port before removing it from the system. This can be set to "infinity" which sets it to the max value of 2147483647 -seconds, or 68 years. +seconds, or 68 years. It will be automatically adjusted to the overall +retry interval +\fIno_path_retry\fR * \fIpolling_interval\fR +if a number of retries is given with \fIno_path_retry\fR and the +overall retry interval is longer than the specified \fIdev_loss_tmo\fR value. .TP .B queue_without_daemon If set to -- 1.7.4.2