Re: [PATCH 2/2] dm mpath: Interface for explicit probing of active paths

2025-04-29 Thread Benjamin Marzinski
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 06:50:18PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Multipath cannot directly provide failover for ioctls in the kernel > because it doesn't know what each ioctl means and which result could > indicate a path error. Userspace generally knows what the ioctl it > issued means and if it migh

[PATCH 2/2] dm mpath: Interface for explicit probing of active paths

2025-04-29 Thread Kevin Wolf
Multipath cannot directly provide failover for ioctls in the kernel because it doesn't know what each ioctl means and which result could indicate a path error. Userspace generally knows what the ioctl it issued means and if it might be a path error, but neither does it know which path the ioctl too