Calling domap() will first check if all paths are available by using 'flock' on each path. This might fail if other processes are holding the lock already. In these cases we should retry domap() as the processes should terminate eventually. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- multipathd/main.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c index 2107113..494f4bb 100644 --- a/multipathd/main.c +++ b/multipathd/main.c @@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ ev_add_path (struct path * pp, struct vectors * vecs) char params[PARAMS_SIZE] = {0}; int retries = 3; int start_waiter = 0; + int ret; /* * need path UID to go any further @@ -546,7 +547,15 @@ rescan: /* * reload the map for the multipath mapped device */ - if (domap(mpp, params) <= 0) { +retry: + ret = domap(mpp, params); + if (ret <= 0) { + if (ret < 0 && retries-- > 0) { + condlog(0, "%s: retry domap for addition of new " + "path %s", mpp->alias, pp->dev); + sleep(1); + goto retry; + } condlog(0, "%s: failed in domap for addition of new " "path %s", mpp->alias, pp->dev); /* -- 1.8.4.5 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel