The attached patch just moves the setting of the failfast bit to map_io() so it is set for normal mapping and remaps. Mike
--- 2.6.6-rc2-udm1/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c.orig 2004-05-10 21:16:20.000000000 -0700 +++ 2.6.6-rc2-udm1/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c 2004-05-12 02:54:50.686470770 -0700 @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ static int map_io(struct multipath *m, s if (!*chosen) return -EIO; + bio->bi_rw |= (1 << BIO_RW_FAILFAST); bio->bi_bdev = (*chosen)->dev->bdev; return 0; } @@ -501,7 +502,6 @@ static int multipath_map(struct dm_targe io = mempool_alloc(m->details_pool, GFP_NOIO); dm_bio_record(&io->details, bio); - bio->bi_rw |= (1 << BIO_RW_FAILFAST); r = map_io(m, bio, &io->path); if (r) { mempool_free(io, m->details_pool);