Greetings, and thanks again for your response, I just found a small but importent mistake in the multipath.conf file. There was no space between devices and the accolade so "devices{" it must be "devices {" so I just changed that and checked as you already suppost with multipath -ll -v5 and see now that the path_checker is changed from tur to readsector0. I will reproduce the tests tomorrow and will let you know or readsector0 will solve this issue. Kind regards, Menno Koehler On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:02 -0400, Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: > this is a longshot, but try multipath -ll -v3 | more > and see if the devices are really seen as IBM 2145? or something else? > > I have sles not RedHat, not sure of differences; > Do you know if mkinitrd put an older copy of multipath.conf into initrd? > try mkinitrd, zipl, reboot. > > -----Original Message----- > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Koehler, M - SPLXM > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:23 AM > To: device-mapper development > Subject: RE: Losing paths > > Hello, > > Thanks for your respond, first I tried the multipathd -k reconfigure > (and get a ok returned) and later when seen that it still was using tur > we tried a reboot but with the same result. > > Kind regards, > > Menno > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Romanowski, John (OFT) > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:13 PM > To: device-mapper development > Subject: RE: Losing paths > > Did you change multipath.conf and reboot the machine? > if not reboot, what steps put the changed multipath.conf into effect > for the 2145's (SVC) LUNs? > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged > or otherwise legally protected. 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Please notify the sender immediately by > reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Koehler, M - SPLXM > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:34 AM > To: device-mapper development > Subject: RE: Losing paths > > Greetings, > > We tried testing with path_checker readsector0 end directio but we get > some strange behavior eg the checker used is always tur!! > So if we create a device entry special for IBM 2145 and define as > path_checker directio or readsector0 we still see in the message file > tur messages: > > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:0: tur checker reports path is > down > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:16: tur checker reports path is > down > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:32: tur checker reports path is > down > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:48: tur checker reports path is > down > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:80: tur checker reports path is > down > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:96: tur checker reports path is > down > Jul 23 08:09:00 kl11071i multipathd: 65:112: tur checker reports path is > down > > > Oure multipath.conf file is: > > defaults { > user_friendly_names yes > } > > devices{ > device { > vendor "IBM" > product "2145" > path_grouping_policy group_by_prio > getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s" > prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_alua %d" > path_checker readsector0 > failback immediate > } > } > > Did someone see this behavior before? 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