I'm curious if anyone has seen any side effects for those that have run the applicable Linux & Solaris gos timeout scripts from netapps. It's my understanding that vmware tools in vsphere is also implementing a similar setting.
NetApp Solution ID: kb41511 - VMware ESX Guest OS I/O Timeout Settings for NetApp Storage Systems
I'm noticing that the rhel4_gos_timeout-install.sh script seems to break the ability of the gos to dynamically create a device file in /dev for a hot added virtual disk. This is not the case for the rhel5_gos_timeout-install.sh script.
I also noticed I seem to get the following entry in /var/log/messages when trying to rescan for a newly added virtual disk with the netapps timeout setting in place.
Dec 1 16:40:55 bobo hald[30837]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 594. Rebasing to 594
If I remove the files this script creates and restart udev things go back to working again.
Chad
