[dm-devel] Manual failback commands

Scott Dungan scott at gps.caltech.edu
Wed Feb 3 16:49:40 UTC 2010


> On mar., 2010-02-02 at 16:39 -0800, Scott Dungan wrote:
>    
>> Hello all.
>>
>> If we set a device to manual failback, how does one command the
>> multipathd service to reinstate the path when we have decided the path
>> is indeed ready to accept IO?
>>
>>      
> paths are automatically reinstated by multipathd.
>
> The 'failback' parameter means the original path_group is not
> re-activated after a switch-over to a secondary path_group.
>
> You can force multipathd to not reinstate a path using the CLI (or
> pro-actively disable it).
>    
Thanks for the clarification. I think I understand this better now. 
Would it be possible to post CLI example(s) of reinstating or disabling 
a path? I cannot seem to find such an example in documentation or other 
available resources.

Regards,

-Scott




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