Hello Christophe,

The patch below was posted more than three months ago but has not yet received any feedback from you. Had I sent this patch to the right person? Do you perhaps want me to repost it?

Bart.

On 01/04/17 11:56, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:37:44PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:

ACK

-Ben

Christophe and Hannes, do you want to comment on this patch?

Thanks,

Bart.

On 11/18/2016 01:33 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:

Avoid that reloading a map while there are no paths triggers a flush
and hence unwanted I/O errors if 'queue_if_no_path' is enabled.

Fixes: commit d569988e7528 ("libmultipath: Fixup 'DM_DEVICE_RELOAD' handling")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
---
libmultipath/devmapper.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libmultipath/devmapper.c b/libmultipath/devmapper.c
index f92ebce..31f1962 100644
--- a/libmultipath/devmapper.c
+++ b/libmultipath/devmapper.c
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ int dm_addmap_reload(struct multipath *mpp, char *params, int flush)
                              params, ADDMAP_RO, SKIP_KPARTX_OFF);
        }
        if (r)
-               r = dm_simplecmd(DM_DEVICE_RESUME, mpp->alias, flush,
+               r = dm_simplecmd(DM_DEVICE_RESUME, mpp->alias, !flush,
                                 1, udev_flags, 0);
        return r;
}