[dm-devel] BIO_RW_FAILFAST

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2005-05-17T15:59:15, Andy <genanr at emsphone.com> wrote:

> I have been having problems with systems getting I/O errors and dropping
> mounted filesystems, when it is processing a RCSN caused by some other event
> on the fabric within its' zone.  If I unset BIO_RW_FAILFAST in dm-mpath.c I
> no longer get the I/O errors and of course no filesystem drops.  Are there
> any plans to change this, or make it a settable option?  Are there any
> negatives to not setting it?

What is "RCSN"? What hardware? And why does it show up on all paths at
once?


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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