paths scsi names persistence after rescan

[Peter M. Petrakis]

On 05/31/2011 05:24 PM, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> i've configured multipath on a linux box and i'm getting these messages on 
> syslog:

Let's start with the basics:
- which version of Ubuntu are you running?
- multipath version
- kernel version


> May 30 10:50:05 mail-1 udevd-work[25148]: rename(/dev/disk/by-
> id/wwn-0x6006016052b022002e770b609680e011.udev-tmp, /dev/disk/by-
> id/wwn-0x6006016052b022002e770b609680e011) failed: No such file or directory

So without the alias directives the wwn are created and persist just fine?


> and sometimes after a path failure,  the different paths get different scsi 
> names, /proc/partitions shows in that case:
> 
>    8       16  838860800 sdb
>    8       32  849582720 sdc
>    8       80  838860800 sdf
>    8       96  849582720 sdg
>  252        3  849582720 dm-3
>  252        4  838860800 dm-4
>    8      208  838860800 sdn
>    8      224  849582720 sdo
>   65        0  849582720 sdq
>    8      240  838860800 sdp
> 
> and then multipath gets crazy:
> 
> May 25 12:26:51 mail-1 multipathd: sdh: emc_clariion_checker: sending query 
> command failed
> ...
> 
> i guess i should tell udev to asign persistant names using uuid? what's the 
> right way to address this problem?
> 
> this is my config:
> 
> root at mail-1:~# multipath -ll
> backup (36006016052b022009cd7f2aeaf80e011) dm-3 DGC     ,RAID 5        
> [size=810G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=1 emc]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active]
>  \_ 3:0:1:1 sdg 8:96  [active][ready]
>  \_ 4:0:0:1 sde 8:64  [active][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled]
>  \_ 3:0:0:1 sdc 8:32  [active][ready]
>  \_ 4:0:1:1 sdi 8:128 [active][ready]
> mail (36006016052b022002e770b609680e011) dm-4 DGC     ,RAID 5        
> [size=800G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=1 emc]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active]
>  \_ 4:0:0:0 sdd 8:48  [active][ready]
>  \_ 3:0:1:0 sdf 8:80  [active][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled]
>  \_ 3:0:0:0 sdb 8:16  [active][ready]
>  \_ 4:0:1:0 sdh 8:112 [active][ready]
> 
> root at mail-1:~# cat /etc/multipath.conf 
> #
> 
> blacklist {
>     devnode "sda"
>     devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
>     devnode "^hd[a-z][[0-9]*]"
>     devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*[p[0-9]*]"
> }
> 
> defaults {
>     user_friendly_names no
> }
> 
> devices {
> 	device {
> 		vendor "DGC"
> 		product "*"
> 		path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
> 		getuid_callout "/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/%n"
> 		prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_emc /dev/%n"
> 		hardware_handler "1 emc"
> 		no_path_retry 300
> 		path_checker emc_clariion
> 		failback immediate   
> 	}
> }
> 
> multipaths {
> 	multipath {
> 		wwid 36006016052b022002e770b609680e011
> 		alias mail
> 	}
> 	multipath {
> 		wwid 36006016052b022009cd7f2aeaf80e011
> 		alias backup
> 	}
> }
> 
> thanks in advance!

Peter

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