[OpenIndiana-discuss] spurious degraded multipath messages?

[Richard Elling]

On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> On 3/28/2012 1:38 PM, Richard Elling wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>>   
> Let me rephrase.  Is it spurious in my case?  Your second comment seems to imply it is?

No, it is not spurious. It is informational.

>>>  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
>>   
> See above?

I tend to choose the "better idea"
 -- richard

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