On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:09:06PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > We can and will need to mlockall() the path test tool, which will make sure > > that we can access all pages of the tool, shared library or mmap'ed file it > > needs. > > Yes, I think Christophe Varoqui who is writing the tools is aware of > this. > > > But if *all* paths of the multipath target to test are failed > > Then we error the ios, we have no choice. The userland tester should > not wait until this situation before testing. Right, but it won't have a chance to test early enough worst case. Eg, all phyiscal paths fail because of a short power outage to multiple switches in a fabric, which come back online shortly later when all paths have been failed by the multipath target. > > - Joe > > -- > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat, Inc. Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
