[dm-devel] unmapping luns doesn't work (good)

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hello list,

This is my first real experience with device mapper and multipath-tools.

I have several luns exported on an IBM 3400 to one host.

I have several problems when I unmap a lun:
1) If I don't remove the multipath (before I unmap) I can not remove (by 
force too) the multipath for that lun. (Note the lun is not mounted.)
2) Removing the multipath and then unmapping the lun works, but then 
doing a rescan of the bus **sometimes** gives me a new lun with name '1'.

Case 1:
-------
multipath -l

mail17r-ds3400-1 (3600a0b80005a67b6000004764cac4912) dm-2 IBM,1726-4xx 
FAStT
size=550G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=active
| `- 0:0:0:6 sde 8:64  active undef running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=enabled
   `- 5:0:0:6 sdj 8:144 active undef running

root at cyrprd1:~# dmsetup table
mail17r-ds3400-1: 0 1153433600 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 1 rdac 2 1 
round-robin 0 1 1 8:64 1000 round-robin 0 1 1 8:144 1000

I now remove mapping through the storage software.

root at cyrprd1:~# multipath -f mail14r-ds3400-1
Oct 18 17:07:09 | mail14r-ds3400-1: map in use

root at cyrprd1:~# multipath -l mail14r-ds3400-1
mail14r-ds3400-1 (3600a0b80005a591a000004294cac468b) dm-0 IBM,1726-4xx 
FAStT
size=550G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=enabled
| `- 5:0:0:2 sdg 8:96  failed undef running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=enabled
   `- 0:0:0:2 sdb 8:16  failed undef running
root at cyrprd1:~#


Case 2:
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Sorry couldn't reproduce at the moment...



I'm running
kernel 2.6.32-5
multipath-tools 0.4.9-1
os: Debian Squeeze

Thanks!

Rudy