Thank you very much for your quick response. I can give this a try and tweak it as I go along. Peter -----Original Message----- From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eli Stair Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:53 PM To: device-mapper development Subject: Re: multipath features Check multipath.conf.annotated in the source. This will retry n times before failing. no_path_retry {n} I have repeatable issues with setting this higher than about 3-5 however, where IO queues (more like blocks) forever, even after failing the path back... requiring a reboot, and resulting in data corruption. YMMV. /eli Peter Koutoupis wrote: > I cannot seem to find an answer for this no matter where I look, but > if I wanted to queue all IO if there was no path for a LIMITED time > before it eventually times out, does a feature exist? Currently I am > using "1 queue_if_no_path" but the last thing I want is for a path to > be unavailable and have it consume all host resources until the host > cannot handle it anymore. Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Peter Koutoupis > Systems Engineer > Xyratex International, Inc. > 1804 Centre Point Circle > Suite 112 > Naperville, IL 60563 USA > (630)364-7656 > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
