We are currently using multibus as a path_grouping_policy since all of our ports are active and there is no need to weight any different than others. The array is active / active.
In poking around the multipath source files I am assuming that this is what is happening in domap since that is the only path that returns a negative number to the caller in main.c in multipathd:
if (lock_multipath(mpp, 1)) {
condlog(3, "%s: failed to create map (in use)",
mpp->alias);
return DOMAP_RETRY;
}
I guess that it didn't log since the log level of multipath was lower and that is why you want me to run at '-v 3'? If it is true that it believes that the map is in use what does that mean?
Thanks,
Brian
On Jun 21, 2012, at 10:44 PM, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> On jeu., 2012-06-21 at 16:54 -0700, Brian Bunker wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>> We have hit this problem a couple of times now on our RHEL 6.2
>> initiators using our FC target. We have many dm devices which should
>> have 4 paths to each. Sometimes we see that some of the dm devices do
>> not have the 4 paths. The underlying /dev/sd devices do exist but they
>> are not used by the dm device. Here is what I see:
>>
>>
>> mpathbbt (3624a9370f9b69331bb3d16650001000b) dm-11 PURE,FlashArray
>> size=500G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
>> `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
>> |- 1:0:1:12 sds 65:32 active ready running
>> `- 1:0:0:12 sdae 65:224 active ready running
>>
>>
>> However there are devices for the remaining two paths they are just
>> not being used by multipathd:
>>
>>
>> /dev/sg18 1 0 1 12 0 /dev/sds PURE FlashArray 100
>> /dev/sg30 1 0 0 12 0 /dev/sdae PURE FlashArray 100
>> /dev/sg39 0 0 1 12 0 /dev/sdan PURE FlashArray 100
>> /dev/sg48 0 0 0 12 0 /dev/sdaw PURE FlashArray 100
>>
>>
>> You can see by the LUN serial number that the devices do point to the
>> same LUN on the array. I am including just the LUN serial number, page
>> 0x80, in the interest of space page 0x83's NAA number also matches for
>> the 4 devices:
>>
>>
>> root@r13init31 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x80 /dev/sg18
>> VPD INQUIRY: Unit serial number page
>> Unit serial number: F9B69331BB3D16650001000B
>>
>>
>> [root@r13init31 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x80 /dev/sg30
>> VPD INQUIRY: Unit serial number page
>> Unit serial number: F9B69331BB3D16650001000B
>>
>>
>> [root@r13init31 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x80 /dev/sg39
>> VPD INQUIRY: Unit serial number page
>> Unit serial number: F9B69331BB3D16650001000B
>>
>>
>> [root@r13init31 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x80 /dev/sg48
>> VPD INQUIRY: Unit serial number page
>> Unit serial number: F9B69331BB3D16650001000B
>
>>
>> Any ideas why the paths are being rejected by domap?
>>
> Have you tried the "group_by_serial" path grouping policy ?
> There might be funny side effects if the wwid discovered on paths is not
> the same though ...
>
> Can you post the multipath -v3 output concerning those 4 paths
> discovery.
>
> Regard,
> cvaroqui
>
>
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