When a path is down or blocked we need to initialize the priority to '0'. Otherwise multipathd will discard the maps during reload and fail to start if all paths are temporarily down. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/discovery.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/libmultipath/discovery.c b/libmultipath/discovery.c index 04e3ead..3292358 100644 --- a/libmultipath/discovery.c +++ b/libmultipath/discovery.c @@ -1117,6 +1117,9 @@ pathinfo (struct path *pp, vector hwtable, int mask) } else { condlog(3, "%s: path inaccessible", pp->dev); pp->chkrstate = pp->state = path_state; + if (path_state == PATH_PENDING || + path_state == PATH_DOWN) + pp->priority = 0; } } -- 1.8.1.4 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel