[dm-devel] dm-devel Digest, Vol 91, Issue 27

[jerome.levy at emc.com]

> And if, for some reason, multipathd wasn't monitoring a path it should
> be, the best thing to do is to reconfigure multipathd.  Code that
> watched multipath.conf and automatically reconfigured multipathd when it
> changed would be a nice addition though.

I'd suggest an explicit warning of unmonitored paths in syslog rather than an automagic reconfiguration. A simple typo in multipath.conf could cause the loss of a whole lot of data if automatic reconfigs are happening. 

- Jerry