My application vendor recommends to use different values for multipathing than the ones that multipathd uses by default, what should I do?

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Issue

  • My application vendor recommends to use different values for multipathing than the ones that multipathd uses by default, what should I do?
  • The default config of device-mapper-multipath for my storage hardware uses no_path_retry = 6 while my application/cluster vendor recommends to use no_path_retry = fail, which

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • device-mapper-multipath

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