[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath-tools: Minor doc fix

Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins at redhat.com
Tue Oct 20 19:48:54 UTC 2009


The polling_interval increases caused some confusion, so I'm adding it
to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
---
 multipath.conf.annotated   |    4 +++-
 multipath/multipath.conf.5 |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: multipath-tools-091013/multipath.conf.annotated
===================================================================
--- multipath-tools-091013.orig/multipath.conf.annotated
+++ multipath-tools-091013/multipath.conf.annotated
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 #	#
 #	# name    : polling_interval
 #	# scope   : multipathd
-#	# desc    : interval between two path checks in seconds
+#	# desc    : interval between two path checks in seconds. For
+#	#           properly functioning paths, the interval between checks
+#	#           will gradually increase to (4 * polling_interval).
 #	# values  : n > 0
 #	# default : 5
 #	#
Index: multipath-tools-091013/multipath/multipath.conf.5
===================================================================
--- multipath-tools-091013.orig/multipath/multipath.conf.5
+++ multipath-tools-091013/multipath/multipath.conf.5
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ The
 section recognizes the following keywords:
 .TP 17
 .B polling_interval
-interval between two path checks in seconds; default is
+interval between two path checks in seconds For properly functioning paths,
+the interval between checks will gradually increase to (4 * polling_interval);
+default is
 .I 5
 .TP
 .B udev_dir




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