multipath.conf defaults section not being obeyed in RHEL
Issue
- Options defined in
multipath.confdefaults section not being obeyed in RHEL -
Changes to the
path_selectoroption in defaults section not getting applied
For example.
Added below entry forservice-time 0path selector in defaults section of/etc/multipath.conf:$ less /etc/multipath.conf ... defaults { polling_interval 5 ... path_selector "service-time 0" getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id --whitelisted --device=/dev/%n" } ...But even after
multipathdreload,multipath -llshowsround-robin 0as path selector:data (12334556027be3ac0) dm-9 3PARdata,VV size=200G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active <----- |- 2:0:0:8 sdj 8:144 active ready running |- 1:0:0:8 sdbz 68:208 active ready running |- 2:0:1:8 sdar 66:176 active ready running `- 1:0:1:8 sddh 70:240 active ready running
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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