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From: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
To: Avishay Traeger <avishay@stratoscale.com>, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Getting device-mapper failure notifications
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:00:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CD38FD.9010209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHph7JrC0pU+Wy7DsHeCAhz7FWuJa29qGsdv+jD3OQq4aJ1bTA@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/01/2016 11:07 PM, Avishay Traeger wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a system where various configurations are possible - iSCSI/FC,
> single paths and multiple.  For multiple I of course use device-mapper.
> I was wondering if it was possible to:
> 1. use it for cases where I have a single path.
> 2. create a monitoring process that can take some action (e.g., send a
> notification via message queue) in the case of some failure that would
> normally cause failover.

Does dm-multipath support a single path? I don't know...

but for your #2, dm-multipath publishes a uevent when a path fails, 
maybe the process could look for that? Using libudev?

HTH -- Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02  7:07 Getting device-mapper failure notifications Avishay Traeger
2016-02-24  5:00 ` Andy Grover [this message]
2016-02-24  6:01   ` Avishay Traeger
2016-02-24 10:25   ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-02-24 13:12     ` Bryn M. Reeves
2016-02-24 17:25     ` Mike Snitzer

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