From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: DM-Multipather with initialization probem ?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:48:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201546137.2634.76.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8A591D76.E8A19332-ONC12573DE.005111F7-C12573DE.0051D727@de.ibm.com>
Hi Achim,
What is the "failback" set to in your configuration file ?
If it is set to "manual" then the failed path will not become active by
themselves. If you want them to be automatic, I would suggest setting it
to "immediate".
More details can be found at
http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/MultipathUsageGuide
regards,
chandra
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 15:53 +0100, Achim Warnecke wrote:
>
> After setup of 40 vdisks, zoning of two switches, etc. and starting I/O I
> did a goodpath-test with Redhat 5.1.
> Everything worked fine. During running the failover test's the
> dm-multipather didn't handle to re-establish
> all paths correctly.
>
> I tried running multipathd with "-v4" option for verbose logging. And
> changed the
> line "daemon $DAEMON" with "daemon $DAEMON -v4" in /etc/init.d/multipathd
> file
> and restarted the daemon by running "/etc/init.d/multipathd restart" again.
>
> After that the failover worked fine, with and without the -v4 option.
> In my setup this behavior is reproducible.
> Could there be a connection with specifically starting the multipathd ?
>
> --------before teststart--------
> QL_0 (36005076801b080fb7000000000000dac) dm-16 IBM,2145
> [size=500M][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][active]
> \_ 5:0:1:0 sdbu 68:128 [active][ready]
> \_ 4:0:0:0 sdci 69:96 [active][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=20][enabled]
> \_ 5:0:0:0 sdbg 67:160 [active][ready]
> \_ 4:0:1:0 sdcw 70:64 [active][ready]
> QL_10 (36005076801b080fb7000000000000db5) dm-26 IBM,2145
> [size=2.0G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=100][active]
> \_ 5:0:0:10 sdbq 68:64 [active][ready]
> \_ 4:0:1:10 sddg 70:224 [active][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=20][enabled]
> \_ 5:0:1:10 sdce 69:32 [active][ready]
> \_ 4:0:0:10 sdcs 70:0 [active][ready]
> [root@x455-tic-1 ~]#
>
> Kind regards, Achim
>
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2008-01-28 14:53 DM-Multipather with initialization probem ? Achim Warnecke
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