Timing help sought.. I think We have been running on an iscsi mpath setup for about 1.5 years ... (no real failover other than testing) Here is the HW we are dealing with: - Equallogic ps disk array dual controller modules - qlogic 4052 HBA - RHEL4.5 During testing phase things worked .. if i pulled power to a switch things moved over to the other .. but when other switch came back .. no 'failback' occurred.. I was not too concerned about this as the initial failure worked and oracle kept going etc.. (if this happened in real life i figured we would obviously replace switch and reboot boxes when things were back) .. The orig switch setup did not incorporate a trunk as expected by the equallogic (as we now know) .. This was our error and reason for the fail back to not happen (im thinking). By now everything is in production and we discover this on a routine (during scheduled maintenance) fw update of the switches which requires a reboot. One week later (during maintenance again) we have the trunk in place between our iscsi switches and spanning-tree working on the switches (iscsi san looks like a square with two sets of switches with 1g fiber connections on one set of parallel lines) My issue is this .. I am now seeing many path 'failures' like below .. but these are not really failures.. as it comes back in less than 2 seconds.. It seems no real I/O is affected at all. Is this due to a setting in my defaults section of multipath.conf? I'm thinking minimum io or polling interval. Links all show good on the switches and minimal errors (if any). ====== snip from /var/log/messages =========== Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 3 0> return code = 0x20000 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 161085656 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 8:64. Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 161085664 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 3 0> return code = 0x20000 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 119577336 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 119577344 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 3 0> return code = 0x20000 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 233247600 Sep 27 09:25:45 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 233247608 Sep 27 09:25:45 host multipathd: 8:64: mark as failed Sep 27 09:25:45 host multipathd: host.datafiles.prod: remaining active paths: 1 Sep 27 09:25:47 host multipathd: 8:64: readsector0 checker reports path is up Sep 27 09:25:47 host multipathd: 8:64: reinstated Sep 27 09:25:47 host multipathd: host.datafiles.prod: remaining active paths: 2 Sep 27 09:25:47 host multipathd: host.datafiles.prod: switch to path group #1 Sep 27 09:25:47 host multipathd: host.datafiles.prod: switch to path group #1 ========= end snip ========================= ========= /etc/multipath.conf ================ defaults { multipath_tool "/sbin/multipath -v0" udev_dir /dev polling_interval 2 selector "round-robin 0" path_grouping_policy failover getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" path_checker readsector0 prio_callout "/bin/true" features "0" rr_min_io 2 rr_weight priorities failback immediate no_path_retry fail user_friendly_name yes } ## everything is friendly names and ignore devices below =========== end ====================== -- :wq! kevin.foote