[OpenIndiana-discuss] spurious degraded multipath messages?

Wed Mar 28 17:38:43 UTC 2012

On Mar 28, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> So I have an M1015 and it works fine.  I noticed the other day I hotplugged a crucial M4 into the last free port on the HBA, and later noticed in the dmesg output:
> 
> Mar 27 17:55:40 nas genunix: [ID 483743 kern.info] /scsi_vhci/disk at g500a07510324
> d633 (sd9) multipath status: degraded: path 8 mpt_sas9/disk at w500a07510324d633,0
> is online
> 
> I don't actually have any multipathing.  Is this spurious?

No

>  Is there some something I can tweak to get rid of stuff like this?  

Here's a bad idea: configure syslog to ignore kernel info messages. 
Better idea: consider yourself informed and be happy ;-)
 -- richard

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