[dm-devel] Re: configure MD3000

Thomas Witzel witzel.thomas at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 19:40:53 UTC 2009


What sort of bothers me, is that although we specified rdac, it says
hwhandler=0 while on the web there seems to be output examples where
it does say rdac in the multipath output.
Also googling convinced me that some people have
drivers/md/md-multipath-rdac.c or something like that in their kernel,
while my ubuntu kernel and the vanilla git kernel do not have this. I
have the feeling this is an important component of this.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Thomas Witzel <witzel.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you want me to test whether I can read/write ? I can no longer
> mount the /dev/sd*1 partitions because now they are busy (thats since
> I started multipath). Yes, I did execute multipath -F and multipath
> repeatedly, the daemon is running.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Chandra Seetharaman
> <sekharan at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Are you able to read/write from/to the scsi device ?
>>
>> If yes, Did you do "multipath -F" followed by "multipath".
>>
>> Is the multipathd running ?
>>
>> chandra
>> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:25 -0400, Thomas Witzel wrote:
>>> My /sys/block looks like this:
>>> ls /sys/block/
>>> dm-0  dm-3  dm-6   loop2  loop5  ram0   ram11  ram14  ram3  ram6  ram9
>>>  sdc  sdf  sdi  sdl
>>> dm-1  dm-4  loop0  loop3  loop6  ram1   ram12  ram15  ram4  ram7  sda
>>>  sdd  sdg  sdj  sdm
>>> dm-2  dm-5  loop1  loop4  loop7  ram10  ram13  ram2   ram5  ram8  sdb
>>>  sde  sdh  sdk  sr0
>>>
>>> My /proc/partitions looks like this:
>>>
>>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>>
>>>    8     0   71041024 sda
>>>    8     1   68099503 sda1
>>>    8     2          1 sda2
>>>    8     5    2939863 sda5
>>>    8    16 2134896640 sdb
>>>    8    17 2134893883 sdb1
>>>    8    32 2134896640 sdc
>>>    8    48 2134896640 sdd
>>>    8    49 2134893883 sdd1
>>>    8    64 2134896640 sde
>>>    8    80 1222794240 sdf
>>>    8    96      20480 sdg
>>>    8   112 2134896640 sdh
>>>    8   128 2134896640 sdi
>>>    8   129 2134893883 sdi1
>>>    8   144 2134896640 sdj
>>>    8   160 2134896640 sdk
>>>    8   161 2134893883 sdk1
>>>    8   176 1222794240 sdl
>>>    8   192      20480 sdm
>>>  254     0 2134896640 dm-0
>>>  254     1 2134896640 dm-1
>>>  254     2 2134896640 dm-2
>>>  254     3 2134896640 dm-3
>>>  254     4 1222794240 dm-4
>>>  254     5      20480 dm-5
>>>  254     6      20480 dm-6
>>>
>>> All the sd's with a partition are working fine, I even created a test
>>> file system at some point. I did load scsi_dh_rdac for testing at some
>>> point, and that put the following into the syslog:
>>> [10170.087743] sd 1:0:0:0: rdac: LUN 0 (owned)
>>> [10170.089151] sd 1:0:0:1: rdac: LUN 1 (unowned)
>>> [10170.089941] sd 1:0:0:2: rdac: LUN 2 (owned)
>>> [10170.090719] sd 1:0:0:3: rdac: LUN 3 (unowned)
>>> [10170.092112] sd 1:0:0:4: rdac: LUN 4 (owned)
>>> [10170.092964] sd 1:0:1:0: rdac: LUN 0 (unowned)
>>> [10170.093733] sd 1:0:1:1: rdac: LUN 1 (owned)
>>> [10170.094507] sd 1:0:1:2: rdac: LUN 2 (unowned)
>>> [10170.095261] sd 1:0:1:3: rdac: LUN 3 (owned)
>>> [10170.096081] sd 1:0:1:4: rdac: LUN 4 (unowned)
>>> [10170.096088] rdac: device handler registered
>>>
>>> Also loading the scsi_dh_rdac module seems to stop the [ 8996.087508]
>>> Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 5
>>> [ 8996.087539] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 6
>>> [ 8996.087548] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 5112
>>> [ 8996.087553] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 5112
>>> [ 8996.087601] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 12
>>> [ 8996.087606] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 13
>>> [ 8996.087609] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 14
>>> [ 8996.087612] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 15
>>> [ 8996.087615] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 16
>>> [ 8996.087618] Buffer I/O error on device dm-5, logical block 17
>>>
>>> type messages.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Chandra Seetharaman
>>> <sekharan at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> > No, you don't have to change the distro.
>>> >
>>> > Do you see the disks ? (the #:#:#:# makes me think that the underlying
>>> > block devices are not configured properly). IOW, do you the sd devices
>>> > under /sys/block ? Are you able to read/write from/to the devices ?
>>> >
>>> > chandra
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:07 -0400, Thomas Witzel wrote:
>>> >> Thanks Chandra,
>>> >>
>>> >> sorry for the out of order reply, still had the digest mode on. I
>>> >> setup the config similar to what you said
>>> >>
>>> >> devices {
>>> >>         device {
>>> >>                 vendor                  "DELL"
>>> >>                 product                 "MD3000"
>>> >>                 hardware_handler        "1 rdac"
>>> >>                 path_checker            rdac
>>> >>                 path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
>>> >>                 prio_callout            "/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n"
>>> >>                 failback                immediate
>>> >>                 getuid_callout          "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u /block/%n"
>>> >>         }
>>> >> }
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> and I'm still getting:
>>> >> sdh: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
>>> >> create: 360022190009773680000214749504780 ,
>>> >> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdb 8:16  [undef][ready]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdh 8:112 [undef][faulty]
>>> >> sdc: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
>>> >> create: 3600221900096f27d00000ab3495047fd ,
>>> >> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdc 8:32  [undef][faulty]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdi 8:128 [undef][ready]
>>> >> sdj: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
>>> >> create: 360022190009773680000214a495047ce ,
>>> >> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdd 8:48  [undef][ready]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdj 8:144 [undef][faulty]
>>> >> sde: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
>>> >> create: 3600221900096f27d00000ab449504839 ,
>>> >> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sde 8:64  [undef][faulty]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdk 8:160 [undef][ready]
>>> >> sdl: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
>>> >> create: 360022190009773680000214c49504806 ,
>>> >> [size=1.1T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdf 8:80  [undef][ready]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdl 8:176 [undef][faulty]
>>> >> create: 360022190009773680000000000000000 ,
>>> >> [size=20M][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdg 8:96  [undef][ready]
>>> >> create: 3600221900096f27d0000000000000000 ,
>>> >> [size=20M][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>>> >>  \_ #:#:#:# sdm 8:192 [undef][ready]
>>> >> libdevmapper: libdm-common.c(312): Created
>>> >> /dev/mapper/360022190009773680000000000000000
>>> >> libdevmapper: libdm-common.c(312): Created
>>> >> /dev/mapper/3600221900096f27d0000000000000000
>>> >>
>>> >> Now this is not on RH or SLES, its an ubuntu 8.4 system. If absolutely
>>> >> necessary I would  consider switching the distribution, but right now
>>> >> I'd prefer to stick with what all the other machines have.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks, Thomas
>>> >>
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