Description of problem: When the OS volume is multipathed, the major:minor numbers of each of the devices is required in the nash init script. This becomes a problem when the number of drives is changing which means the major:minor number of successive paths will not remain the same across reboots. There should be a command to specify the WWID of the volume so that the device numbers can be looked up without prior specification. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a multipathed OS LUN 2. Add additional LUNs 3. Reboot Actual results: OS volume will not use multipath Expected results: With the change, the correct devices will be found based on a provided WWID and the multipath will be correctly established. Additional info: I have created a new nash command, 'mp'. This command takes the mpath name and the WWID as arguments. For example, the existing 'dm create' command might look like: dm create mpath0 --uuid mpath-360060e80042be50000002be5000000c1 0 211077120 multipath 0 0 2 1 round-robin 0 1 1 8:0 1000 round-robin 0 1 1 8:80 1000 For the same end result, the 'mp' command I've created would look like: mp mpath0 360060e80042be50000002be5000000c1 I have attached a patch for mkinitrd-6.0.19. This has been tested on Hitachi arrays.
Created attachment 308994 [details] This is a patch for mkinitrd-6.0.19 that creates a new nash command.
There is a second problem that this patch appears to address: If the system reboots with a path outage, the dm create commands in init fail because the second path as specified my M:m pair cannot be found. With this patch and an init using the 'mp' command, a system which reboots during a path outage will actually come up. A later path restoration is gracefully handled by dm-multipath.
A clarification: The result of trying to boot a multipathed node after adding additional LUNs from a SAN is FAIL. The root filesystem cannot be found. The result of trying to boot a multipathed node during a path outage is FAIL. The root filesystem cannot be found. This is unpleasant. Glenn's patch to nash addresses both of these failures by using drive WWID lookups via INQUIRY page 0x83. Corresponding mkinitrd changes should be trivial for any shell-loving ;-) coder as the scsi_id program in udev will report WWIDs.
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This problem is not one that will go away by itself. It is still a *design* problem in Fedora 10.
Changing to Fedora 10 as this is still an issue.
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