[dm-devel] multiple paths question

malahal at us.ibm.com malahal at us.ibm.com
Mon Jan 21 20:03:14 UTC 2008


The id in those two dm devices (HITACHI_DF500_B_ and HITACHI_DF500_A_)
seem to indicate that you may not be using the right getuid_callout for
these devices.

--Malahal.

Chandra Seetharaman [sekharan at us.ibm.com] wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:45 -0500, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > I'm a little confused over how multipathing works.  I've got a host
> > with a 2port HBA and a 4port Storage unit.  My multipath setup seems
> > to create 8 LUNS and then splitting them up into two groups.  This is
> > a single disk.  How do i get it to show me a single target instead of
> > dm-0 and dm-1?
> 
> You may have a single disk but from your results it is clear that it is
> configured as 2 LUNS in Hitachi storage.
> 
> If you want to see it as a single dm device, you should reconfigure the
> luns in Hitachi.
> > 
> > [root at node1 ~]$ multipath -ll
> > mpath2 (HITACHI_DF500_B_) dm-0 HITACHI ,DF500
> > [size=1.0G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0]
> > \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
> >  \_ 3:0:3:0 sdi 8:128 [active][ready]
> >  \_ 3:0:2:0 sdh 8:112 [active][ready]
> >  \_ 2:0:3:0 sde 8:64  [active][ready]
> >  \_ 2:0:2:0 sdd 8:48  [active][ready]
> > mpath3 (HITACHI_DF500_A_) dm-1 HITACHI ,DF500
> > [size=1.0G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0]
> > \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
> >  \_ 3:0:1:0 sdg 8:96  [active][ready]
> >  \_ 3:0:0:0 sdf 8:80  [active][ready]
> >  \_ 2:0:1:0 sdc 8:32  [active][ready]
> >  \_ 2:0:0:0 sdb 8:16  [active][ready]
> > 
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