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From: "Victoria A Smith" <vasmith@sandia.gov>
Subject: Re: bindings file; rename WWID to mpath alias
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:13:09 -0600
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It is on /var (/var/lib/multipath/bindings), and /var is a separate LV 
from /.

I am beginning to think the WWID 350002ac002c506cc is a "rogue" device 
and should be removed from the system.

Regards,

Victoria


brem belguebli said the following on 04/26/2010 05:00 PM:
> Is your bindings file located on a different [lv|partition] than / ?
>
> It may cause this kind of troubles if so.
>
> Brem
>
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 13:58 -0600, Victoria A Smith wrote:
>    
>> After a system crash I have filesystem access problems when
>> the multipathd service is started.  I noticed in the messages file
>> and in output from multipath -ll that an alias is not being
>> used:
>>
>> messages:  [...] rename 350002ac002c506cc to mpath18
>>
>> # multipath -ll
>> [...]
>> 350002ac002c506cc dm-12 3PARdata,VV
>>
>> # ls -1 /dev/mpath/
>> 350002ac002c506cc
>> mpath10
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> The bindings file has:
>> [...]
>> mpath18 350002ac002c506cc
>>
>>
>> Can the apparent failure of the alias-to-WWID mapping cause any problems?
>>
>>
>> RHEL5.5
>> 2.6.18-194.el5
>> device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-34.el5
>> QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.03.01.04.05.05-k
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Victoria
>>
>>
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