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Description of problem: In the midst of removing and re-establishing multipath FC disks (via FCoE), the multipathd daemon marked the disk to read-only (DISK_RO=1) for an extended period of time which led to 'Operation not permitted' failures in the disk-write application. Note that for this specific case, the link toggle was caused by the HP interconnect reboot test. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This was observed with the device-mapper-multipath under RHEL6.4 GA How reproducible: Reproducible after 3-4 hours of testing Steps to Reproduce: 1. Establish FCoE disks with multipath 2. Continuously do write I/Os to the disks 3. toggle remote FC links Actual results: After a few hours of testing, the test application will fail with the 'Operation not permitted' message for the failed write command due to the disk being marked RO. Expected results: In this multipath environment, there's always a path to the FC disk. So for every link toggle event, the multipathd daemon should be able to react and change the path accordingly. Additional info:
Created attachment 806809 [details] multipathd log which contains the 'DISK_RO=1' message
Created attachment 806810 [details] corresponding message log
Created attachment 806811 [details] Application error log with 'Operation not permitted'
This looks like it might be a dup of Bug #958091. The issue is that whenever multipath fails reloading a table, it retried read-only. In case a device was read-only. The fix for Bug #958091, was to only try this reload if the table-load failed with an error of EROFS. Can you please try the latest packages (device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-71.el6) available at: http://people.redhat.com/bmarzins/device-mapper-multipath/rpms/RHEL6/x86_64/ and http://people.redhat.com/bmarzins/device-mapper-multipath/rpms/RHEL6/i686/ and let me know if this resolves the issue.
Thanks, Ben. We are still working to verify your patch. I'll be sure to keep you posted on our findings.
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I'm pretty sure this is a dup, as mentioned in Comment 5. It's been two years, with no response from the reporter on verifying this, so I'm closing the bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 958091 ***