From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Handle multipath paths in a path group properly during pg_init (was "RE: DM does not activate the paths if there are more than one path in path group during failover") Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:34:58 +0000 Message-ID: <20081114193458.GV30569@agk.fab.redhat.com> References: <1225944321.14830.1109.camel@chandra-ubuntu> <20081111005920.GN16649@agk.fab.redhat.com> <1226620138.8998.64.camel@chandra-ubuntu> <20081114001205.GQ30569@agk.fab.redhat.com> <1226689728.8998.76.camel@chandra-ubuntu> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1226689728.8998.76.camel@chandra-ubuntu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: sekharan@us.ibm.com Cc: Mike Anderson , Levy_Jerome , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , asson_ronald , device-mapper development , Mike Christie List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:08:48AM -0800, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > No, I "replaced" the "per-group" pg_init with "per-path" init. Indeed, but I'm pointing out that the per-group initialisation was originally added for EMC and arguing that per-group initialisation and per-path initialisation are independent conceptually and the code may need to support both: adding one to deal with the problem reported here need not necessitate removing the other. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com