Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: update defaults

2016-06-07 Thread Benjamin Marzinski
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 09:14:32AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > For years I've been telling our customers to use the 'tur' checker > as the current default 'directio' will cause spurious path failures > under high load. > > And for several versions (years, even) the linux kernel has the ability

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: update defaults

2016-06-05 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
Hannes Reinecke wrote: > For years I've been telling our customers to use the 'tur' checker > as the current default 'directio' will cause spurious path failures > under high load. If directio is unreliable, it must be _fixed_ or *removed* . And this text in multipath.conf.5 needs to be replaced:

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: update defaults

2016-06-03 Thread Christophe Varoqui
Agreed. Waiting for Ben's ack before merging. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > For years I've been telling our customers to use the 'tur' checker > as the current default 'directio' will cause spurious path failures > under high load. > > And for several versions (years,

[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: update defaults

2016-06-03 Thread Hannes Reinecke
For years I've been telling our customers to use the 'tur' checker as the current default 'directio' will cause spurious path failures under high load. And for several versions (years, even) the linux kernel has the ability to correctly detect the device handler, so we should be making 'retain_hw_