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From: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
To: jens.axboe@oracle.com, james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
	alasdair.kergon@redhat.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: [BUG] dm-mpath and scsi persistent reservation
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:19:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021231910.0fdbeb75@plop> (raw)

Hi,

the dm-mpath multipathing driver enqueues write ios returned by
the scsi layer with a "reservation conflict" error (on assymetric
storage controllers, like Clariion, where queue_if_no_path is enabled).

This is wrong, and a potent data-corrupter : wio sent to a reserved
scsi device should never be retried on this same device.

Can someone advise on a viable solution for this problem ? I
understand the Device Mapper being a block remapper, it is not expected
to receive scsi errors directly ... but maybe some kind of translation
might be acceptable. Or is there hope in the request-based remapper ?

Jens, James, Alasdair, ... as maintainers of the involved subsystems,
would you care to give some advise on the issue.

Regards,
cvaroqui

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 21:19 Christophe Varoqui [this message]
2008-10-21 22:48 ` [BUG] dm-mpath and scsi persistent reservation Chandra Seetharaman
2008-10-22 19:54   ` Christophe Varoqui
2008-10-22 20:30     ` [dm-devel] " James Bottomley
2008-10-23  2:53       ` Mike Christie
2008-10-22 21:21     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-10-23 19:30       ` Christophe Varoqui
2008-10-23 21:03   ` Christophe Varoqui

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