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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Re: fastfail operation and retries
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:44:06 +0200
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On 2005-04-25T16:56:56, Tim Pepper <tpepper@gmail.com> wrote:

> > queue_if_no_path must be used; I'm not sure why any dm-multipath
> > storage users would not want to turn on queue_if_no_path by default?
> What protection is there against long term queueing and running the
> machine out of memory?

User-space needs to take action and tell us when to stop queuing.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e <lmb@suse.de>

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