Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] multipath: delegate dangerous commands to multipathd

2017-09-08 Thread Martin Wilck
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 16:57 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:05:36AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > > Some multipath commands are dangerous to run while multipathd is > > running. > > For example, "multipath -r" may apply a modified configuration to > > the kernel, > >

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] multipath: delegate dangerous commands to multipathd

2017-09-07 Thread Benjamin Marzinski
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:05:36AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > Some multipath commands are dangerous to run while multipathd is running. > For example, "multipath -r" may apply a modified configuration to the kernel, > while multipathd is still using the old configuration, leading to >

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] multipath: delegate dangerous commands to multipathd

2017-08-29 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 08/29/2017 12:05 AM, Martin Wilck wrote: > Some multipath commands are dangerous to run while multipathd is running. > For example, "multipath -r" may apply a modified configuration to the kernel, > while multipathd is still using the old configuration, leading to > inconsistent state between

[dm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] multipath: delegate dangerous commands to multipathd

2017-08-28 Thread Martin Wilck
Some multipath commands are dangerous to run while multipathd is running. For example, "multipath -r" may apply a modified configuration to the kernel, while multipathd is still using the old configuration, leading to inconsistent state between multipathd and the kernel. It is safer to use