Is multipath essential on Server 20.04?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Oct 2 14:46:30 UTC 2020


On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> I have a little Raspberry Pi 4 box serving up a 5TB ZFS array. I often
> see multiple instances of `multipathd` running. Right now, I have 7
> copies, with 273MB of virtual memory each.
> 
> I do not use iSCSI or any kind of SAN, just ZFS, Samba and Netatalk.
> Can I safely uninstall multipath-tools?
> 
I have a pi 4 running as a nas/backup, no multipath processes at all.

In fact multipath-tools isn't even installed.  My system is headless
though and I installed the 'lite' image with no desktop.

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Chris Green




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