Why do I see the message "multipath.conf line <#>, invalid keyword: polling_interval" during bootup or when starting multipathd in RHEL 5 or 6?

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Issue

  • Why do I see messages during bootup or when starting multipathd such as:
multipath.conf line 149, invalid keyword: polling_interval

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6
  • device-mapper-multipath
  • The polling_interval keyword specified in /etc/multipath.conf in a section other than defaults {}

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