[dm-devel] multipath-tools causes path to come back as different block device

[Guido Guenther]

Hi Hannes,
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:24:15AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hmm. multipathd really should react to the 'remove' events for sdX.
> Checking ...
> 
> Looks as if it does. And it even is supposed to stop the path checker.
> 
> Care to run multipathd with full debugging (ie -v 4) and post the output?
> My guess is that somehow the path checker is not stopped and the fd is kept
> open, so that the device is not released properly.
This even happens with no multipathd running on a Clariion with qla2xx.
So multipathd can't be at fault here, can it? Also with multipathd
running the device nodes in /dev/ and the sysfs nodes in /sys/block get
removed properly (at least it looks like to me). Any hints where else to
start digging?
Cheers,
 -- Guido