Hey, Iam using linux-isci-utils default rpm with Centos 4.5. The targets are on a Hitachi WMS 100. The LUNs are exposed via both iSCSI ports for multipathing. There are three LUNs exposed via both ports and I can see disks from sdb to sdg. After start iscsi initiator i created a primary partition (type set to LVM) using parted on sdb, sdc and sde. I then configured multipath and i can see all devices mapped cleanly. hitachi03 (36000000000000000043b8bff00000002) [size=943 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"] \_ round-robin 0 [active] \_ 3:0:0:2 sdf 8:80 [active][ready] \_ 4:0:0:2 sdg 8:96 [active][ready] hitachi02 (36000000000000000043b8bff00000001) [size=2047 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=2][active] \_ 4:0:0:1 sde 8:64 [active][ready] \_ 3:0:0:1 sdd 8:48 [active][ready] hitachi01 (36000000000000000043b8bff00000000) [size=2047 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"] \_ round-robin 0 [active] \_ 3:0:0:0 sdb 8:16 [active][ready] \_ 4:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 [active][ready] [root@localhost ~]# ll /dev/mapper/ total 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 Nov 15 19:52 control brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 2 Nov 15 20:08 hitachi01 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 5 Nov 15 20:08 hitachi01p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 Nov 15 20:08 hitachi02 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 3 Nov 15 20:08 hitachi02p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Nov 15 20:08 hitachi03 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 4 Nov 15 20:08 hitachi03p1 I want to use hitachi01p1, hitachi02p1 and hitachi03p1 as PVs in a LVM2 VG. So i did a pvcreate, but pvdisplay shows a weird result. [root@localhost ~]# pvcreate /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 Physical volume "/dev/mapper/hitachi01p1" successfully created [root@localhost ~]# pvdisplay --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 VG Name PV Size 101.94 MB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID mPcYnl-OIHH-QK1U-f7vV-GV0t-NOBA-S2JFdf PV Size is is only 101 MB whereas the LUN size is 2 TB. My lvm.conf has... filter = [ "a|/dev/mapper/hitachi0.p.$|","r/.*/" ] types = [ "device-mapper", 1 ] # vgscan -vvvv #filters/filter-regex.c:170 /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1: New preferred name #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 RO #device/dev-io.c:264 /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1: size is 208782 sectors #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 #device/dev-io.c:264 /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1: size is 208782 sectors #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 RO O_DIRECT #device/dev-io.c:134 /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1: block size is 1024 bytes #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 #filters/filter-composite.c:31 Using /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 RO O_DIRECT #device/dev-io.c:134 /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1: block size is 1024 bytes #label/label.c:180 /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1: No label detected #label/label.c:278 <backtrace> #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi02p1 #filters/filter-regex.c:170 /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1: New preferred name #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 RO #device/dev-io.c:264 /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1: size is 208782 sectors #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 #device/dev-io.c:264 /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1: size is 208782 sectors #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 RO O_DIRECT #device/dev-io.c:134 /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1: block size is 1024 bytes #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 #filters/filter-composite.c:31 Using /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 RO O_DIRECT #device/dev-io.c:134 /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1: block size is 1024 bytes #label/label.c:180 /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1: No label detected #label/label.c:278 <backtrace> #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi03p1 #filters/filter-regex.c:170 /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: New preferred name #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 RO #device/dev-io.c:264 /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: size is 208782 sectors #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 #device/dev-io.c:264 /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: size is 208782 sectors #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 RO O_DIRECT #device/dev-io.c:134 /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: block size is 1024 bytes #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 #filters/filter-composite.c:31 Using /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 #device/dev-io.c:440 Opened /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 RO O_DIRECT #device/dev-io.c:134 /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: block size is 1024 bytes #label/label.c:158 /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: lvm2 label detected #cache/lvmcache.c:656 lvmcache: /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1: now orphaned #format_text/format-text.c:921 <backtrace> #device/dev-io.c:486 Closed /dev/mapper/hitachi01p1 Im not using udev rules to create persistance naming for iscsi devices. I dont think its required as multipath already maps the devices. How can i fix this ? TIA Dushyanth -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel