Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: handle fpin events

2021-12-06 Thread Erwin van Londen
Hello Martin, Muneendra. As I kicked this discussion off in the beginning of the year and seeing the Muneendra and the broadcom people have come up with the first iteration I can only applaud the efforts. On behalf of all storage and linux administrators I would say "Thank you". As for your

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: avoid unnecessary path read-only reloads

2021-12-06 Thread Benjamin Marzinski
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 08:25:00AM +, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 16:47 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > A mulitpath device can only be reloaded read/write when all paths are > > read/write. Also, whenever a read-only device is rescanned, the scsi > > subsystem will first

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] libmultipath: keep existing dm_info if you fail to get a new one

2021-12-06 Thread Benjamin Marzinski
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 08:01:11AM +, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 19:34 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > There are reasons that dm_get_info() can fail other than the > > multipath > > device not existing. If there is an existing dm_info structure and > > the > > call fails,