From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: NIC and HBA based multipathing Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:20:43 -0800 Message-ID: <20071106222043.GA23178@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <342d47870710300956k3bde2d06j7a50acc6c8225fe5@mail.gmail.com> <5fb0f77b0710301040l4eeca0a7n2ccdc00b14285294@mail.gmail.com> <342d47870710301211y42200594u444b7af7ae870e7@mail.gmail.com> <472A2EA5.8050609@cs.wisc.edu> <342d47870711011321j1ff065c3jb54589988f3c499f@mail.gmail.com> <20071101215726.GB11002@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <342d47870711061308p77655083y7ac30a9e9e2a3b72@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <342d47870711061308p77655083y7ac30a9e9e2a3b72@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids Scott Moseman wrote: > Thanks, Mike, I was just about to give this a try when I came upon > another problem (unrelated to MPIO, though). The server was down, and > ever since bringing it back online I've been unable to get the HBA to > mount. I disabled the iSCSI initiator for the NIC so that I'm only > dealing with the HBA, but I get this error: > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /sanHBA > mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /sanHBA busy > > I did a fresh config using the iscli tool, and /dev/sdb1 was the > resulting partition that it found. > It appears something else has claimed the device prior to your mount call. - Is it lvm? Run pvs and see if the device was claimed. If that is not what you want you may need to use the lvm.conf filters. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com