Hello Christophe, Christophe Varoqui wrote: > Hi, > > the precedence chain is : > > multipaths > user-specified per-device > default per-device > default > > The issue adressed by Ben's patch would not be solved by your suggestion, > as far as I can see. The proposed override section is just a way not repeat > a per-device in each multipath (insane) or device (tedious) section. care to explain why setting the precedence to multipaths > user-specified per-device > default > default per-device would not fix the issue? Lets assume the following default device and user configuration: .vendor = "COMPELNT", .product = "Compellent Vol", .pgpolicy = MULTIBUS, .pgfailback = -FAILBACK_IMMEDIATE .no_path_retry = NO_PATH_RETRY_QUEUE, .checker_name = TUR defaults { no_path_retry fail } devices { device { vendor "COMPELNT" product "Compellent Vol" path_grouping_policy "group_by_prio" } } multipaths { multipath { wwid 1234 failback 15 } } The default section should change no_path_retry from "queue" to "fail". The device section should change path_grouping_policy from "multibus" to "group_by_prio" for "COMPELNT/Compellent Vol". The multipath section should change failback from "immediate" to 15 for wwid 1234. The path_checker would still be "tur". Is this not what the "overrides" patch intended? Sebastian -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel