Some storage controllers don't support ALUA even though they have hwtable entries telling so. One such example is the IBM IPR SAS controller found on certain IBM Power systems. IBM has confirmed that reliable detection of ALUA support for this controller by vendor/model/rev is impossible. For such cases, instead of simply failing to setup multipath, fall back to const prio. Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/discovery.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/libmultipath/discovery.c b/libmultipath/discovery.c index 9f2a9c907914..a51eb0b82f53 100644 --- a/libmultipath/discovery.c +++ b/libmultipath/discovery.c @@ -1637,9 +1637,26 @@ get_prio (struct path * pp) pp->priority = prio_getprio(p, pp, conf->checker_timeout); put_multipath_config(conf); if (pp->priority < 0) { - condlog(3, "%s: %s prio error", pp->dev, prio_name(p)); - pp->priority = PRIO_UNDEF; - return 1; + const char origin[] = "(fallback after error)"; + + if (strcmp(prio_name(p), DEFAULT_PRIO)) { + conf = get_multipath_config(); + prio_get(conf->multipath_dir, p, DEFAULT_PRIO, + DEFAULT_PRIO_ARGS); + pp->priority = prio_getprio(p, pp, + conf->checker_timeout); + put_multipath_config(conf); + } + + if (pp->priority < 0) { + condlog(1, "%s: %s prio error", pp->dev, prio_name(p)); + pp->priority = PRIO_UNDEF; + return 1; + } + + condlog(3, "%s: new prio = %s %s", pp->dev, prio_name(p), origin); + condlog(3, "%s: new prio args = \"%s\" %s", pp->dev, prio_args(p), + origin); } condlog(3, "%s: %s prio = %u", pp->dev, prio_name(p), pp->priority); -- 2.16.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel