[dm-devel] How about having multipathd re-enable a currently disabled (bypas sed) path group ...

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2005-06-10T12:50:44, "goggin, edward" <egoggin at emc.com> wrote:

> ... whenever any path in the path group tests successfully, that is,
> the path checker for the path returns PATH_UP (that is, not
> PATH_DOWN, PATH_SHAKY, or -1)?

That would _immediately_ cause a failback to said group. Which is what a
certain storage vendor also doesn't want. ;-)

If anything, I'd assume a choice of:

a) Reenable "immediately"
b) Reenable after N seconds in which no new failures have been detected
   (giving the fabric a delay to stabilize)
c) Reenable manually only.


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

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