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transitioning  state and we do not yet support that (for SCSI >> multipath). >> > There is an issue with the preferred path in general, namely that it > overlays the ALUA states (ie you can have 'acive/non-optimized' _and_ > the preferred path bit set). So it only makes sense for explicit ALUA > as then the preferred path bit gives us an indicator that we might / > should switch paths. > > If we restrict ourselves to implicit ALUA (which I'm advocating anyway > for scsi-multipath) the preferred path becomes rather pointless as > we cannot influence path selection at all. ok, fine, I won't touch for native scsi multipath. Thanks