Just say you change the queue_depth on a hdisk with chdev –P . This updates the devices ODM information only, not its running configuration. The new value will take effect next time I reboot the system. So now I have a different queue_depth in the ODM compared to the devices current running config (in the kernel).   What if I forget that I’ve made this change to the ODM and forget to reboot the system for many months? Someone complains of an I/O performance issue....I check the queue_depths and find they appear to be set appropriately... [More]

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