Greetings,
Greetings,
The current git version of multipath-tools doesn't properly handle
4k block sizes and partions creation. There very little verbose
output but I will post what I can find. I would appreciate any help
getting this working.
The raw devices detect the 4k partition.
Ben Marzinski had a patch to print the table _before_ it was sent to the
kernel so that we had something to go on beyond "253:6: multipath: error
getting device"...
As is the output is useless. We have no idea _why_ it failed to get the
device (or which device it failed to get). We can do better here in
both kernel and userspace error logging. But chances are multipathd is
just looking to use multipath on devices that aren't meant for
multipathing (and they should be blacklisted in the multipath.conf).
I've very carefully blacklisted all the non-mp devices. They are all FC
from two target devices. Any non EMC device is 4k block. 512 partition
devices do detect.
A manual run of kpartx -a creates the dm points.
Which distro is this?
This particular machine is a Gentoo disto. I have other debian and
Ubuntu. Udev v204
So samplelib and sfx4k are 4K devices that have partitions.
[multipathd] sfx4k: load table [0 165076992 multipath 0 0 1 1 service-time 0 2 1 8:192 4 8:144 4]
[multipathd] samplelib: load table [0 461373440 multipath 0 0 1 1 service-time 0 2 1 65:16 4 8:240 4]
I assume these devices map to sdp and sdr, and likely other devices not
provided in your log output. multipathd -ll would be useful.
I realize I trimmed a few of the extra devices out of the list to focus
down to the main set. Didn't want to flood the list with full logs.
here's -ll
Thanks
audio (26334336163623562) dm-4 SCST_FIO,audio
size=2.5T features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 7:0:1:2 sdo 8:224 active ready running
`- 8:0:1:2 sdp 8:240 active ready running
sfx4k (23836326166643837) dm-2 SCST_FIO,sfx4k
size=79G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 7:0:1:0 sdk 8:160 active ready running
`- 8:0:1:0 sdl 8:176 active ready running
emc-test (36006048000018799014253594d313037) dm-0 EMC ,SYMMETRIX
size=54G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 7:0:0:0 sdg 8:96 active ready running
`- 8:0:0:0 sdh 8:112 active ready running
general (26562393662643538) dm-3 SCST_FIO,general
size=600G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 7:0:1:1 sdm 8:192 active ready running
`- 8:0:1:1 sdn 8:208 active ready running
emc-bak (36006048000018799014253594d313238) dm-1 EMC ,SYMMETRIX
size=3.8T features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 7:0:0:1 sdi 8:128 active ready running
`- 8:0:0:1 sdj 8:144 active ready running
samplelib (26266376537366261) dm-5 SCST_FIO,samplerlib
size=220G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 7:0:1:3 sdq 65:0 active ready running
`- 8:0:1:3 sdr 65:16 active ready running
Are you certain none-4K devices with partitions are created properly?
(I think multpathd leans on kpartx to be invoked by udev after the
multipathd device is established but I could be misrembering).. Could be
the udev hook isn't working in general?
Mike
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