I'm connecting to an IBM 6800 SAN via two QLogic 2340's to a single LUN and I've
been wrestling with multipathing to them for about a week now. "Both" LUNs
are visible as two scsi devices, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
So I slap a Linux (0x83) partition on the device (and it is visible through
the "second" lun) and I create the md device:
# ./mdadm --create /dev/md0 --force --level=multipath --raid-disks=2 \
/.dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 \
/.dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
That can be formatted, mounted, written to, etc., all reliably. Info:
# dmesg
multipath: array md0 active with 2 out of 2 IO paths
# ./mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Fri Jun 10 16:07:16 2005
Raid Level : multipath
Array Size : 314568640 (299.100 GiB 322.12 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Fri Jun 10 16:07:16 2005
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : a917893d:4570204d:bcf77929:a2564bef
Events : 0.2
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 65 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
The config file, switched to devfs names since sda and sdb could move
around:
DEVICE /.dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
/.dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=multipath num-devices=2
UUID=a917893d:4570204d:bcf77929:a2564bef
devices=/.dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,/.dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/l
And then we reboot.
When the device is brought up the second time (and I don't think a reboot is
even needed), only one of the paths to the storage will be added, the other
failing with "Device or resource busy."
dmesg after boot:
md: md0 stopped.
md: bind<sdb1>
md: export_rdev(sda1)
multipath: array md0 active with 1 out of 2 IO paths
When I stop it manually, then re-activate it:
# ./mdadm -A /dev/md0
mdadm: device 1 in /dev/md0 has wrong state in superblock, but
/.dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 seems ok
mdadm: failed to add /.dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 to /dev/md0:
Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2).
So I'd guess that something's going wrong there but I have little idea what.
The bad part is that while troubleshooting this, I managed to make any
number of things go wrong, so I'm not even sure anymore if this is the root
of my problem, but it's where I am right now. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
John
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John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx
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