Is it possible to make pool multi-path failover faster?

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In short, it is not possible in the operating system to decrease the failover time.

The driver for your hardware determines when a path is no longer available. Pool waits until it receives a SCSI error from the driver (request failed) and then immediately switches to the secondary path. In order to find out how to decrease this you should contact the driver manufacturer.

If your ...

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