If the path checker fails to lookup the path in sysfs it's already gone, so we should rather return 'PATH_DOWN' here. Otherwise the path will never marked failed and no failover will happen. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/discovery.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libmultipath/discovery.c b/libmultipath/discovery.c index 6848b70..7ed8556 100644 --- a/libmultipath/discovery.c +++ b/libmultipath/discovery.c @@ -659,11 +659,11 @@ path_offline (struct path * pp) if (!parent) { condlog(1, "%s: failed to get sysfs information", pp->dev); - return PATH_WILD; + return PATH_DOWN; } if (sysfs_get_state(parent, buff, SCSI_STATE_SIZE)) - return PATH_WILD; + return PATH_DOWN; condlog(3, "%s: path state = %s", pp->dev, buff); -- 1.7.4.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel