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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: do Symmetrix multipath-tools defaults need update
	? or scsi-to-blk errors management ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:11:02 -0500
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On 06/10/2009 11:58 PM, christophe.varoqui@free.fr wrote:
>>> ::: error log on a 2.6.9 (rhel 4.7) kernel :::
>>>
>> For RH 4.9 I did the attached patch. So this error is not fastfailed
>> (upstream does not fastfail this type of error when using dm-multipath
>> now). So now the scsi layer will retry its normal 5 times, then fail.
>>
> Thank you for the information. This is very good news.
> Can you also advise about the rhel 5 minimum kernel version ?

It should be fixed in rhel 5.3 and the change was merged in upstream 
2.6.28 kernel.