[dm-devel] EMC Clariion ghost devices
Lars Marowsky-Bree
lmb at suse.de
Sun Jul 31 22:01:54 UTC 2005
On 2005-07-29T15:28:03, Joel Becker <Joel.Becker at oracle.com> wrote:
> I've just tried using the multipath-tools (SLES9 SP2,
> multipath-tools-0.4.4-0.22) with my EMC clariion. Now, this clariion is
> an active/passive system, and the second path is showing a ghost LUN 0
> (this is expected).
"WFM". I actually tested the SP2 code on a CLARiiON, it's my development
box ;-) The version of multipath-tools on SLES9 SP2 is not quite 0.4.4
from upstream, though, but with some fixes pulled in.
Have you seen
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/04/sles_multipathing.html ?
> During normal boot, the device (/dev/sdap) returns an I/O error
> when the kernel tries to get the partition table. No problem. If later
> someone scans the disk, they get an I/O error. No problem.
Yeah, this is ugly and annoying, but harmless.
> Then I fire up multipathd and multipath. Multipath creates a dm
> device for the ghost, and tries to run kpartx on it. That kpartx hangs.
> In fact, I don't know how, but it ends up in a frozen I/O state. It's
> unkillable.
That should not happen(tm). Where does it hang according to sysrq-t?
(kpartx supposedly is run against the dm-multipath table and not against
sdap, so it should already benefit from the multipath protection...)
"sg_inq -P /dev/sdap" might also be worth a try, what does it report for
the various paths?
Is that a LUN 0 backed by actual storage or a LUN_Z?
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>
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