[dm-devel] NIC and HBA based multipathing

[Scott Moseman]

On Nov 6, 2007 5:01 PM, Mike Anderson <andmike at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /sanHBA
> > > > mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /sanHBA busy
>
> Are there any dm messages in the dmesg output?
>
> Are you sure dm multipath did not grab the device(s) on boot?
>
> What is the output of multipath -l?
>

# multipath -l
30690a018f015191a6472441d1500f057
[size=4 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [active]
 \_ 1:0:1:0 sdb 8:16 [active]

I guess that might explain it, huh?  However, I disabled the service...

# service multipathd status
multipathd is stopped

So I was assuming that it wasn't going to be firing up.  Obviously I'm
missing something.

Thanks!
Scott