On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 12:49 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > If a path's checker state is down before and after a path check, but > the > path's dmstate is active, mutipath won't update the dmstate. It only > updates the dmstate when the path first fails. This can cause the > kernel to try known faulty paths, if the multipath device was > reloaded > outside of multipathd. check_path() already checks for and deals > with a > similar case where the path's checker state is up before and after a > path check, but the dmstate is failed. It should do the same thing > for > faulty paths. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> -- Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107 SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel