On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 06:33:02PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote: > > Well, they really should be alarming because the admin configured > > a block layout setup and it did not work as expected. So it should > > ring alarm bells. > > Yes, I expect that "pNFS: failed to open device > /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-0x6001 ..." is very likely > operator error. Actually that one is purely a debug message if at all - we don't know if it is a mpath or non-mpath device, so we just try that first. So that is totally fine to downgrade or turn into a trace point. OTOH a warning if you could open neither option would still be useful.