[dm-devel] Multi-Path on SuSe

[Andreas Huck]

Hi,

On Tuesday, 14. December 2004 21:01, christophe varoqui wrote:
[...]
> > Dec 13 21:10:08 netsrv83 multipathd: path checker startup : 66:144
> >  ...................... (more the the rest of the Luns)
>
> Mostly good, but the multipath tool didn't configured any multipath
> map ... we'll need to track that.
I got the same, needed to create the maps "manually" by dmsetup to
get any further.

>
> > Followed by the following after a little while:
>
> The little while is the time for the fd leak to fill the entire fd
> space ... upgrade to 0.4.0
Is this fd leak related to the specific hardware?

>
> > Dec 13 21:12:40 netsrv83 multipathd: 67:64 : readsector0 checker reports
> > path is down
> > Dec 13 21:12:40 netsrv83 multipathd: 67:80 : readsector0 checker reports
> > path is down
> > Dec 13 21:12:40 netsrv83 multipathd: 67:96 : readsector0 checker reports
> > path is down
>
> ...
>
> > Running the command multipath -v 2 doesn't yield any output and /dev had
> > no dm device created.
>
> That the heart of the problem.

you might get dm-devices after manual creation of device maps and
/etc/udev/udev.rules:

KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/devmap_name %M %m", \
NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%c"
 
Regards,
Andreas Huck