Re: [dm-devel] Multipath pathcheck behavior

[Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:31 -0500, Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote:
> Hi list,
> multipath-tools tests the LUN paths every "polling_interval" (default 5
> secs) for failover/failback purposes.
> 
> My question is: 
> Does it omit testing paths that have completed I/O's in the past 5 secs?
> or does it test paths every 5 secs regardless of recent I/O's on the
> path?

It tests regardless of I/O completion.