Mike:
It seems that if I were to set the path_grouping_policy to
"group_by_prio", then it seems to be working similar to a multibus
configuration. What I would like is for within a single multipath group,
(say mpath1), specify a primary path and an alternate/failover path. If
I can make this configurable via user land tool that'd be great. In this
vein, I had considered priorities with hope that if I can set the
priority of a certain path within a group then the path with the highest
priority will always be chosen and the other path (with the lower
priority) will only come into play when the primary goes down.
Below is the output of the multipath -ll & conf file when setting the
path_grouping_policy to group_by_prio.
multipath -ll:
--------------
mpath2 (244534e3833623961) dm-1 DSNET,Dispersed Store
[size=47G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=15][enabled]
\_ 85:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 [active][ready]
\_ 87:0:0:0 sde 8:64 [active][ready]
mpath1 (244534e3266616134) dm-0 DSNET,Dispersed Store
[size=47G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=15][active]
\_ 84:0:0:0 sdb 8:16 [active][ready]
\_ 86:0:0:0 sdd 8:48 [active][ready]
/etc/multipath.conf:
--------------------
defaults {
udev_dir /dev
polling_interval 1
selector "round-robin 0"
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
prio_callout "/bin/bash
/root/MultipathScripts/mpath_prio_alt %n"
path_checker tur
rr_min_io 128
max_fds 8192
rr_weight priorities
failback immediate
no_path_retry queue
user_friendly_names yes
}
Mike Snitzer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07 2009 at 4:25pm -0400,
Akshay Lal <alal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm having a few issues with path priorities. It seems that the choice
of path to use during I/O is independent of the user defined priorities
for each path.
I am setting the priorities by executing writing a script that is used
by prio_callout. This seems to work when I execute multipath -ll since
all the specified priorities show up correctly. (the
path_grouping_policy being used is failover)
...
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I would like to be able to define
the priorities per device, and ensure that data only traverses on the
lower priority path when
a) a failure to the first path (path with a higher priority) occures
b) no other path with a higher priority exists
Do things behave as you'd like if you change path_grouping_policy to
'group_by_prio'?
Mike
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