[dm-devel] multipath rdac - recover from both paths lost

[Konrad Rzeszutek]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:29:16PM +1100, Greg Cockburn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get back from a strage situation.
> 
> I have had both paths in a RDAC setup fail and then come back.

That is not what your 'multipath -ll' output shows. How did they
come back? As in a re-login? If so they should automaticly be
repopulated - unless your 'multipathd' daemon is dead.

Also, try running 'dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null count=1' on your
new paths (sde?, sdf?) and see if they fail. If they do fail, then
they are still in failed condition and you need to fix your
transportion problem.


> 
> I want to know if there is a way to recover from this without a reboot.

Yes. You can force it to rediscover all of the present block devices and
add them in the corresponding device mapper maps by calling : 'multipath'.
No arguments, nothing. Just call it. After that run 'multipath -ll' and
that should show your new/refreshed block devices.


> 
> (OS = CentOS 5.1)
> 
> multipath -ll
> mpath2 (3600a0b800035ebc8000001a94652ae50) dm-4 IBM,1726-4xx  FAStT
> [size=1.4T][features=0][hwhandler=1 rdac]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled]
>  \_ 2:0:0:1 sde 8:80  [failed][ghost]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][active]
>  \_ 1:0:0:1 sdf 8:96  [failed][ready]
> 
> dmsetup info mpath2
> Name:              mpath2
> State:             ACTIVE
> Tables present:    LIVE
> Open count:        20
> Event number:      3
> Major, minor:      253, 4
> Number of targets: 1
> UUID: mpath-3600a0b800035ebc8000001a94652ae50
> 
> vgscan
>   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>   /dev/mapper/mpath2: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 1497314033664:
> Input/output error
>   /dev/mapper/mpath2: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
> 
> dmsetup remove --force mpath2

Uhh.. That is not the way to do it. You would be removing the carpet underneath
LVM. And from the looks of it, there are about 20 processes using it - so all
of them could die.

> 
> 
> 
> device-mapper: remove ioctl failed: Device or resource busy
> Command failed
> 
> multipath -f mpath2 (just exits with return code 1)
> 
> 
> dmesg
> 
>     <<vendor>> ASC=0xe0 ASCQ=0x6ASC=0xe0 ASCQ=0x6
> 
> sde: Current: sense key: Recovered Error
>     <<vendor>> ASC=0xe0 ASCQ=0x6ASC=0xe0 ASCQ=0x6
> 
> sdf: Current: sense key: Recovered Error
>     <<vendor>> ASC=0xe0 ASCQ=0x6ASC=0xe0 ASCQ=0x6
> 
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 61118720
> device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:80.
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 599510512
> 
> device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device mpath2
> device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device mpath2
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg.

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