On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:41PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2004-02-18T08:01:22, > Patrick Mansfield <patmans@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > Allowing suspend on no paths available also makes dm multipath very useful > > for single path cases where we want to allow hot replacement of the > > transport without having to umount or shutdown users of the disk. > > > > For example, if you need to replace a failing cable. > > DM quiescing (or however that is spelled) can already do that, no? The problem is you should have loaded a new table before you call quiesce. - Joe
