How to fix the issue "multipath round-robin: repeat_count > 1 is deprecated"?

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Issue

  • Syslog logs "repeat_count > 1 is deprecated, using 1 instead"
Apr 22 20:13:42 hostname kernel: device-mapper: multipath service-time: repeat_count > 1 is deprecated, using 1 instead
Apr 22 20:13:42 hostname kernel: device-mapper: multipath service-time: repeat_count > 1 is deprecated, using 1 instead

We could see these messages for different path-selectors. For example

multipath round-robin: repeat_count > 1 is deprecated

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7
    • DM-Multipath

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