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Does 'service multipathd reload' command interrupt any previous multipathd working connections ?

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Applies to

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Device-Mapper-Multipath

Answer

It is safe to reload multipathd daemon while device-mapper-multipath paths are in use, as it does not impact any existing paths.

Additional Information

Looking through the /etc/init.d/multipathd script in reload section, we see the following code:

reload() {

echo -n "Reloading $prog: "

trap "" SIGHUP

killproc $DAEMON -HUP

RETVAL=$?

echo

}

The reload process sends a HUP signal to the multipathd daemon, which causes it to re-read the configuration file.

Device-mapper-multipath functions without the multipathd daemon running, however without multipathd, path failures will not be detected or handled.

 

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