On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 17:50 +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> 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 <mwi...@suse.com>

NACK to self. I just realized that this won't work, because we might be
resetting e.g. alua prioritizer to "const" because of a temporary
problem. So this needs more thought.

Martin

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