On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 13:33 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 06:16:17PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > > dm_addmap_create() is where we actually try to set up a new > > multipath map. Depending on the result, mark the wwid as > > failed (or not), and re-trigger an uevent if necessary. > > If a path changes from multipath to non-multipath, use an "add" > > event to make sure LVM2 rules pick it up. Increase log level > > of this event to 3. > > > > By only looking at domap, we will miss instances of multipathd > failing > to create maps earlier in the process. This isn't necessarily wrong. > It > just means that we can't rely on checking > /dev/shm/multipath/failed_wwids to definitively tell us whether > multipathd has tried and failed to create the device. Sorry, I can't follow you. Where else except in the domap->dm_addmap_create->dm_addmap() code path do we create maps? I'm feeling stupid, I really can't see it. Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107 SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel