On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:49:07PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > In priciple a good idea. However, I do have some to-do items on my list > yet: > > - netlink messages: The FC transport class has a netlink interface > nowadays. It may be an idea to utilize this information in to update > the path status. > - Enhance path checker. Currently the path checker is run at periodic > intervals regardless of the path state. This leads to quite some > load on systems with many paths, even when all paths are healthy. > We should rather call the path checker only if a path has failed, > as we're being notified by a failed path soon enough via I/O errors. > And we might even be using the netlink events from FC here, too. > My point exactly: let's tag a new stable version and add these nice things to the (then) next release. I think the stability of the master branch improved quiet a bit during the last couple of commits, It'd be nice to have this out of the door for distributions to build upon before doing more intrusive changes again. Cheers, -- Guido -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel