On mer., 2010-02-03 at 08:49 -0800, Scott Dungan wrote: > > On mar., 2010-02-02 at 16:39 -0800, Scott Dungan wrote: > > > >> Hello all. > >> > >> If we set a device to manual failback, how does one command the > >> multipathd service to reinstate the path when we have decided the path > >> is indeed ready to accept IO? > >> > >> > > paths are automatically reinstated by multipathd. > > > > The 'failback' parameter means the original path_group is not > > re-activated after a switch-over to a secondary path_group. > > > > You can force multipathd to not reinstate a path using the CLI (or > > pro-actively disable it). > > > Thanks for the clarification. I think I understand this better now. > Would it be possible to post CLI example(s) of reinstating or disabling > a path? I cannot seem to find such an example in documentation or other > available resources. > The cli has a syntax help message, accessed using 'help' or whatever unknown keyword. The relevant commands are: reinstate path $path fail path $path which wrap 1/ the dm messaging to fail/resinstate a path and 2/ disable/enable the specified path checking in multipathd -- cvaroqui, http://www.opensvc.com -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
