Could you also share your multipath.conf file. Regards, Pradipmaya. 2008/2/12 Greene, Rick <rick.greene@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I never saw any response on this, though a side comment on my other > thread did get one query that I tried to direct to here, so I figured > I'd repost and see if anyone had any ideas. > > Re-attaching the original docs as well. > > Thanks in advance, > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Greene, Rick > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:20 PM > To: device-mapper development > Subject: Multipath not rebuilding correctly on reboot > > Now that I seem to have multipath and my XP 1024 working together, I've > found a new issue. Someone recently had a similar thread going, but I > saw no ultimate resolution. > > My problem is that when I reboot my server, the multipath configuration > is not coming back the way it was before. I moved the two external > tools I use to find the UID into /etc (they had bin in /usr/bin and > /sbin), updated the multipath.conf file (and one of the scripts) to > reflect this, but odd things are still happening. > > Attached is initial_view.txt, which shows what multipath is coming up > with when I do the commands shown (the bulk of the file is multipath -v3 > output, but at the bottom of the file is a multipath -ll output as > well). It (seems to) correctly shows that I have 4 disks, each visible > via two separate paths. > > After I reboot, however, I get different results. Once it showed 4 > paths for mpath0, and 2 paths for mpath1, 2, and 3. Next time it > correctly showed mpath0, mpath1, and mpath3, but didn't show mpath2 at > all. On the next attempt I got everything correct, and the very next > one only showed mpath0 and mpath1. > > The post_reboot.txt file shows the contents of the /var/log/boot.log > file and the output of the dmesg command, along with the "multipath -ll" > view from the most recent reboot. > > I then manually did a "multipath -v2" and the missing two paths then > came back. The file manual_run.txt shows those results plus the updated > "multipath -ll". > > Do I need to just make my own /etc/init.d script to do a "multipath -v2" > at the end of booting to make sure it all gets covered, along with the > requisite LVM & mount commands to get the VG that is on these disks > working right? > > Thanks in advance, > Rick > > > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
