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Bug 1022018

Summary:	multipathd not updating wwid on lun replacement
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Jon Magrini <jmagrini>
Component:	device-mapper-multipath	Assignee:	Ben Marzinski <bmarzins>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	yanfu,wang <yanwang>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.3	CC:	acathrow, agk, bmarzins, ccui, dwysocha, heinzm, msnitzer, prajnoha, prockai, yanwang, zkabelac
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2014-03-17 19:01:31 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1056239

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-27 08:36:24 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 4 Ben Marzinski 2014-03-17 19:01:31 UTC

Multipath doesn't handle this, and won't in RHEL6, at least.   There's too many corner cases where things could go horribly wrong. That being said, while I don't that you should do this, you could see if running

# service mulitpathd reload

gets you the correct results.  That deals with all the paths at once.

However, multipath is designed around it's devices always having the same wwid, and breaking that assumption is not something you should do.  You must remove the multipath device before changing the wwid of the path devices, for multipath to work correctly.