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From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>
Subject: Re: Fwd: IO error on DM device
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:48:56 +0200
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Hi,
> So based on the comments below and steps to reproduce, I'd say this is 
> expected behavior since multipathd is turned off. What happens if 
> multipathd is left running? It is implied that not stopping multipathd 
> will still cause a failure but will take much longer. I am no expert 
> on multipathd, so perhaps one of the dm developers can comment on 
> multipathd handling these SCSI error.
Unfortunately I've seen these errors occuring with an EMC CX attached to 
a single host, which was running multipath, too. It happened very, very 
rarely and just completely random. I didn't find any way to make it 
reproducible.


Best regards,


Bernd