A thought:
In checking the model, only SCSI_PRODUCT_SIZE chars will be returned from sysfs_get_model. If the entire model strings are:
FlashArray:FC048517648240BB00010003
FlashArray:FC048517648240BB00010005
that's 36 characters, of which the first 35 look identical to me.
Even if "FlashArray:" is ignored, and the hex digits represent the product,
that's still 25 hex digits of which the first 24 look identical.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Brian Bunker <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,
Every once in a while we run into a situation like this and we have caught a machine in this state to hopefully gain some insight into what is wrong where causing this. We have a 'multipath -l' output like this:
[root@r17init5 ~]# multipath -l
...
mpathguk (3624a9370fc048517648240bb00010005) dm-4 PURE,FlashArray
size=500G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=active
|- 2:0:0:7 sdar 66:176 active undef running
|- 0:0:0:7 sdba 67:64 active undef running
|- 3:0:0:5 sde 8:64 active undef running
`- 1:0:0:5 sdt 65:48 active undef running
...
mpathgui (3624a9370fc048517648240bb00010004) dm-5 PURE,FlashArray
size=500G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=active
|- 2:0:0:6 sdaq 66:160 active undef running
|- 0:0:0:6 sday 67:32 active undef running
|- 3:0:0:4 sdd 8:48 active undef running
`- 1:0:0:4 sds 65:32 active undef running
....
You can see that the dm device is combining different LUN numbers under the same dm device which is obviously leading to data corruption. Some dm devices in the list do not have this problem. You can see that these should not be getting combined since their page 0x83 inquiry data is not the same:
[root@r17init5 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x83 /dev/sdar
VPD INQUIRY: Device Identification page
Designation descriptor number 1, descriptor length: 20
designator_type: NAA, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
NAA 6, IEEE Company_id: 0x24a937
Vendor Specific Identifier: 0xfc048517
Vendor Specific Identifier Extension: 0x648240bb00010005
[0x624a9370fc048517648240bb00010005]
Designation descriptor number 2, descriptor length: 47
designator_type: T10 vendor identification, code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor id: PURE
vendor specific: FlashArray:FC048517648240BB00010005
Designation descriptor number 3, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Relative target port, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Relative target port: 0x17
Designation descriptor number 4, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Target port group, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Target port group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 5, descriptor length: 8
designator_type: Logical unit group, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
Logical unit group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 6, descriptor length: 36
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: SCSI name string, code_set: UTF-8
associated with the target port
SCSI name string:
naa.524a937000013316,t,0x0001
Designation descriptor number 7, descriptor length: 16
designator_type: vendor specific [0x0], code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor specific: validation4
[root@r17init5 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x83 /dev/sdba
VPD INQUIRY: Device Identification page
Designation descriptor number 1, descriptor length: 20
designator_type: NAA, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
NAA 6, IEEE Company_id: 0x24a937
Vendor Specific Identifier: 0xfc048517
Vendor Specific Identifier Extension: 0x648240bb00010005
[0x624a9370fc048517648240bb00010005]
Designation descriptor number 2, descriptor length: 47
designator_type: T10 vendor identification, code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor id: PURE
vendor specific: FlashArray:FC048517648240BB00010005
Designation descriptor number 3, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Relative target port, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Relative target port: 0x13
Designation descriptor number 4, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Target port group, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Target port group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 5, descriptor length: 8
designator_type: Logical unit group, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
Logical unit group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 6, descriptor length: 36
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: SCSI name string, code_set: UTF-8
associated with the target port
SCSI name string:
naa.524a937000013312,t,0x0001
Designation descriptor number 7, descriptor length: 16
designator_type: vendor specific [0x0], code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor specific: validation4
[root@r17init5 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x83 /dev/sde
VPD INQUIRY: Device Identification page
Designation descriptor number 1, descriptor length: 20
designator_type: NAA, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
NAA 6, IEEE Company_id: 0x24a937
Vendor Specific Identifier: 0xfc048517
Vendor Specific Identifier Extension: 0x648240bb00010003
[0x624a9370fc048517648240bb00010003]
Designation descriptor number 2, descriptor length: 47
designator_type: T10 vendor identification, code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor id: PURE
vendor specific: FlashArray:FC048517648240BB00010003
Designation descriptor number 3, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Relative target port, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Relative target port: 0x7
Designation descriptor number 4, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Target port group, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Target port group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 5, descriptor length: 8
designator_type: Logical unit group, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
Logical unit group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 6, descriptor length: 36
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: SCSI name string, code_set: UTF-8
associated with the target port
SCSI name string:
naa.524a937000013306,t,0x0001
Designation descriptor number 7, descriptor length: 16
designator_type: vendor specific [0x0], code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor specific: validation2
[root@r17init5 ~]# sg_inq -p 0x83 /dev/sdt
VPD INQUIRY: Device Identification page
Designation descriptor number 1, descriptor length: 20
designator_type: NAA, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
NAA 6, IEEE Company_id: 0x24a937
Vendor Specific Identifier: 0xfc048517
Vendor Specific Identifier Extension: 0x648240bb00010003
[0x624a9370fc048517648240bb00010003]
Designation descriptor number 2, descriptor length: 47
designator_type: T10 vendor identification, code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor id: PURE
vendor specific: FlashArray:FC048517648240BB00010003
Designation descriptor number 3, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Relative target port, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Relative target port: 0x3
Designation descriptor number 4, descriptor length: 8
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: Target port group, code_set: Binary
associated with the target port
Target port group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 5, descriptor length: 8
designator_type: Logical unit group, code_set: Binary
associated with the addressed logical unit
Logical unit group: 0x0
Designation descriptor number 6, descriptor length: 36
transport: Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP-2)
designator_type: SCSI name string, code_set: UTF-8
associated with the target port
SCSI name string:
naa.524a937000013302,t,0x0001
Designation descriptor number 7, descriptor length: 16
designator_type: vendor specific [0x0], code_set: ASCII
associated with the addressed logical unit
vendor specific: validation2
So the first two have 0x624a9370fc048517648240bb00010005 and the second two have the 0x624a9370fc048517648240bb00010003. Is there some caching here that causes this? What could get us here?
I have the server in the state currently so if there is any further output that would help figure out what happened here then let me know.
Thanks,
Brian
Brian Bunker
brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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