On Wed, Aug 01 2012 at 7:00pm -0400, Erich Weiler <weiler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So then I had the idea to compile the RDAC multipathing driver and > create a new initrd that preloads the RDAC driver: > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r)-scsi_dh.img $(uname -r) > --preload=scsi_dh_rdac > > Then I booted with that. It actually did not crash this time, but > did spew a *ton* of SCSI errors on boot, like these (from dmesg): snip... The log you provided does not indicate that the scsi_dh_rdac driver was actually loaded at boot. Please add "rdloaddriver=scsi_dh_rdac" to your kernel command line and see if that helps with all the IO errors you're seeing at boot. > etc, etc, thousands of times. Just for fun I then tried to tie it > together with multipathd, using this config: > > defaults { > udev_dir /dev > polling_interval 5 > path_grouping_policy failover > getuid_callout "/lib/udev/scsi_id --whitelisted > --device=/dev/%n" > path_checker directio > prio const > rr_min_io 1000 > rr_weight uniform > failback manual > no_path_retry fail > user_friendly_names yes > } > > blacklist { > devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*" > devnode "^hd[a-z] > # Blacklist the root disk (/dev/sda) by wwid - Find the wwid > via "/lib/udev/scsi_id --page=0x83 --whitelisted --device=/dev/sda" > wwid "3600508e000000000c3c8e073ff8f3b0c" > devnode "^dcssblk[0-9]*" > } > > devices { > device { > vendor "*" > product "*" > getuid_callout "/lib/udev/scsi_id > --whitelisted --device=/dev/%n" > path_selector "round-robin 0" > path_grouping_policy failover > failback immediate > rr_weight priorities > no_path_retry 5 > rr_min_io 1000 > path_checker tur > prio const > } > } You're not specifying rdac in the multipath conf; therefore multipath isn't going attach the rdac scsi_dh when each path is activated via dm-mpath. > And it *appears* to work: > > # multipath -ll > mpathak (35000c500418ae7db) dm-18 SEAGATE,ST33000651SS > size=2.7T features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw > |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active > | `- 0:0:24:0 sdx 65:112 active ready running > `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled > `- 0:0:84:0 sdce 69:32 active ready running Again, no hwhandler is being specified given: hwhandler='0' > But I cannot write to the disks, I get I/O errors. When I reboot I > still get the thousands of SCSI errors on boot from mpt2sas, etc. > I'm completely stuck. Does anyone have any ideas? Or, is there a > better place to ask this question? If you continue to have problems please escalate to Red Hat support and point them to this mail. They will triage and open a bug accordingly. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel