From: "dushyanth.h@directi.com" <dushyanth.h@directi.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Multipath failover issues
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:51:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BE7C9C.8020100@directi.com> (raw)
Hi guys,
Iam using dm-multipath for a Infortrend dual controller F16F-R4031-6 FC
system.
Version details are :
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-17.el5
device-mapper-1.02.24-1.el5
device-mapper-event-1.02.24-1.el5
OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel : 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Recently, one of the RAID controllers failed and caused multipath to
fail both active paths
device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:32.
sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1976776672
device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:48.
sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1967432880
sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 161647296
This caused the ext3 filesystem to go into a read only mode. Full IO
errors is at http://pastebin.com/m103325d9
The dual controller storage unit and the host server (Only 1 Server
using 2 Qlogic FC HBAs) are hooked upto two different Qlogic SanBox FC
switch for redundancy.
multipath.conf : http://pastebin.com/m4c7da817
multipath -v4 -ll : http://pastebin.com/m7d863925
I have checked the logs on the FC switch and the HBAs
and i dont see any event which suggest both paths failed at once. Even
the errors i captured out of dmesg show that one of the physical disks
that makes up dm-0 had 'end_request: I/O errors' while the other did not
have any such error.
sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1967432880
sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 161647296
At this point iam wondering how paths 8:32 and 8:48 failed together -
considering both paths are through two different FC switches. Any
suggestions on this ?
Additionaly, I have looked at the mailing list archives & annotated conf
files and found two options a) failback and b) no_path_retry. What would
be the best recommended values for these on a dual controller setup like
mine ?
It would also be helpful if someone could share infotrend specific
settings multipath settings.
TIA
Dushyanth
next reply other threads:[~2009-03-16 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 16:21 dushyanth.h [this message]
2009-03-16 16:49 ` Multipath failover issues Bryn M. Reeves
2009-03-16 16:50 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2009-03-16 17:59 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2009-03-16 21:03 ` dushyanth.h
2009-03-16 22:40 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2009-03-17 12:30 ` Dushyanth Harinath
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