Abstract: A technique involves, in response to encountering a predefined number of consecutive I/O errors using a drive path to a storage drive, transitioning the drive path from online to quarantined to temporarily deny further I/O operations from being processed using the drive path. The technique further involves starting a quarantine timer that defines a quarantine time period. The technique further involves performing an update operation that updates the drive path. The update operation (i) changes the drive path from quarantined to removed to continue denying further I/O operations from being processed using the drive path when a removal notification is received before the quarantine time period expires, and (ii) changes the drive path from quarantined to back to online to allow further I/O operations to be processed using the drive path when a removal notification is not received before the quarantine time period expires.

Abstract: A technique involves, in response to encountering a predefined number of consecutive I/O errors using a drive path to a storage drive, transitioning the drive path from online to quarantined to temporarily deny further I/O operations from being processed using the drive path. The technique further involves starting a quarantine timer that defines a quarantine time period. The technique further involves performing an update operation that updates the drive path. The update operation (i) changes the drive path from quarantined to removed to continue denying further I/O operations from being processed using the drive path when a removal notification is received before the quarantine time period expires, and (ii) changes the drive path from quarantined to back to online to allow further I/O operations to be processed using the drive path when a removal notification is not received before the quarantine time period expires.

Abstract: A method of initializing a computing device is provided. The method includes (a) powering up the computing device, (b) initially setting a flag to indicate no need to reboot the computing device, (c) sequentially starting a set of computing components operating on the computing device, (d) in response to one component of the set making a configuration change to the computing device, setting a flag to indicate a need to partially reboot the computing device, and (e) upon all components of the set of components completing to load, partially restarting the computing device conditioned on the flag indicating the need to partially reboot, partially restarting including sequentially restarting the set of computing components without powering up the computing device again. An apparatus, system, and computer program product for performing a similar method are also provided.