[dm-devel] Re: configure MD3000

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Thu Mar 12 19:18:13 UTC 2009


No, you don't have to change the distro.

Do you see the disks ? (the #:#:#:# makes me think that the underlying
block devices are not configured properly). IOW, do you the sd devices
under /sys/block ? Are you able to read/write from/to the devices ?

chandra 

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:07 -0400, Thomas Witzel wrote:
> Thanks Chandra,
> 
> sorry for the out of order reply, still had the digest mode on. I
> setup the config similar to what you said
> 
> devices {
>         device {
>                 vendor                  "DELL"
>                 product                 "MD3000"
>                 hardware_handler        "1 rdac"
>                 path_checker            rdac
>                 path_grouping_policy    group_by_prio
>                 prio_callout            "/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n"
>                 failback                immediate
>                 getuid_callout          "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u /block/%n"
>         }
> }
> 
> 
> and I'm still getting:
> sdh: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
> create: 360022190009773680000214749504780 ,
> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdb 8:16  [undef][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdh 8:112 [undef][faulty]
> sdc: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
> create: 3600221900096f27d00000ab3495047fd ,
> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdc 8:32  [undef][faulty]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdi 8:128 [undef][ready]
> sdj: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
> create: 360022190009773680000214a495047ce ,
> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdd 8:48  [undef][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdj 8:144 [undef][faulty]
> sde: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
> create: 3600221900096f27d00000ab449504839 ,
> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sde 8:64  [undef][faulty]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdk 8:160 [undef][ready]
> sdl: checker msg is "directio checker reports path is down"
> create: 360022190009773680000214c49504806 ,
> [size=1.1T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdf 8:80  [undef][ready]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdl 8:176 [undef][faulty]
> create: 360022190009773680000000000000000 ,
> [size=20M][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdg 8:96  [undef][ready]
> create: 3600221900096f27d0000000000000000 ,
> [size=20M][features=0][hwhandler=0]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][undef]
>  \_ #:#:#:# sdm 8:192 [undef][ready]
> libdevmapper: libdm-common.c(312): Created
> /dev/mapper/360022190009773680000000000000000
> libdevmapper: libdm-common.c(312): Created
> /dev/mapper/3600221900096f27d0000000000000000
> 
> Now this is not on RH or SLES, its an ubuntu 8.4 system. If absolutely
> necessary I would  consider switching the distribution, but right now
> I'd prefer to stick with what all the other machines have.
> 
> Thanks, Thomas
> 
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