On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:28 +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Chandra Seetharaman
>
> > In RDAC mode, tur will always fail on the passive path. You do not see
> > that ?
>
> No, TUR works completely fine on the passive paths. Only thing that
> distinguishes a passive path from an active one is that all actual I/O
> fails. All "meta"-I/O, like TEST UNIT READY, INQUIRY, READ CAPACITY,
> and so on, works fine.
>
It used to fail for me with error. I do not see it with the updated
firmware.
Do you see multiple failures like shown below during the device probe
time ?
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Aug 28 11:07:25 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:26 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 160
Aug 28 11:07:26 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:26 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:26 lab1 kernel: printk: 41 messages suppressed.
Aug 28 11:07:26 lab1 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical
block 0
Aug 28 11:07:27 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:27 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:28 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:28 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:29 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:29 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:30 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:31 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:31 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:31 lab1 kernel: printk: 8 messages suppressed.
Aug 28 11:07:31 lab1 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical
block 0
Aug 28 11:07:32 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Aug 28 11:07:32 lab1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
----------------------
> > You mean mpath_prio_tpc from 0.4.7 ? I use it all the time in both RDAC
> > and AVT mode with no issues.
>
> It works fine, it just prints an error message to stderr "Auto-volume
> Transfer not enabled", which kind of messed up the output from
> multipath -ll. So there's just cosmetic reasons for using
> mpath_prio_rdac over mpath_prio_tpc.
>
> root@atalanta:~# /sbin/mpath_prio_tpc /dev/sdg
> Auto-volume Transfer not enabled6
> root@atalanta:~# /usr/local/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/sdg
> 3
>
Hmm. In my storage it is enabled. That is why I do not see that issue.
May be multipath tools should read and ignore the stderr.
> > oops :)... attached
>
> Since my problem is fixed by the patch pointed to by Brian De Wolf I
> assume you're no longer interested in this debug. Tell me if you are.
>
No, not needed.
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards
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