[OpenIndiana-discuss] spurious degraded multipath messages?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

On 3/28/2012 2:40 PM, Richard Elling wrote:
> 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"
>
Heh.  Bad choice of words on my part then.  I meant spurious as far as 
indicating an issue in my configuration.  I assume there is no issue, 
since I do not multipath?