From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Marzinski Subject: Re: Pathvec messages Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:07:35 -0500 Message-ID: <20080729190735.GF30728@ether.msp.redhat.com> References: <488F4A9E.6020906@amnh.org> <20080729170455.GE30728@ether.msp.redhat.com> <488F54B7.6030600@amnh.org> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488F54B7.6030600@amnh.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Sajesh Singh Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:34:47PM -0400, Sajesh Singh wrote: > ________________________________________________________ > Sajesh Singh > Senior Systems Administrator > American Museum of Natural History > Central Park West at 79th Street > New York, NY 10024 > > (O) (212) 313-7263 > (C) (917) 577-9195 > (E) [1]ssingh@amnh.org > > Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:51:42PM -0400, Sajesh Singh wrote: > > > Whenever I run the multipath -v3 command on a EL 5 server I see the > following line in the output for each device. > > sdc: not found in pathvec > > > This simply means that the device is not already stored in multipath's > in memory list of discovered paths. It's completely normal to see this > for your all your devices when running the multipath command. > > -Ben > > > > That being said, when does the device make it into the memory list of > discovered paths ? Immediately after multipath realizes that it's not there. In multipathd, which uses the same code, you will see this when multipath first spots a new device. After that, the device will be list of discovered paths. -Ben > I have seen questions on this before, but no answer as to what this means. > Is the message merely information or does the multipath configuration need > to be changed? > > Regards, > > Sajesh > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > [2]dm-devel@redhat.com > [3]https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:ssingh@amnh.org > 2. mailto:dm-devel@redhat.com > 3. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel