Hi Hannes, On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:24:15AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hmm. multipathd really should react to the 'remove' events for sdX. > Checking ... > > Looks as if it does. And it even is supposed to stop the path checker. > > Care to run multipathd with full debugging (ie -v 4) and post the output? > My guess is that somehow the path checker is not stopped and the fd is kept > open, so that the device is not released properly. This even happens with no multipathd running on a Clariion with qla2xx. So multipathd can't be at fault here, can it? Also with multipathd running the device nodes in /dev/ and the sysfs nodes in /sys/block get removed properly (at least it looks like to me). Any hints where else to start digging? Cheers, -- Guido -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel