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Bug 796408

Summary: Add detection of PowerPath devices to LVM
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Guil Barros <gbarros>
Component: lvm2Assignee: Alasdair Kergon <agk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.3CC: agk, cmarthal, dwysocha, heinzm, jbrassow, madhu.tarikere, mbroz, prajnoha, prockai, thornber, zkabelac
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 6.3   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: lvm2-2.02.95-1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
LVM now recognises PowerPath devices ("emcpower") and uses them in preference to the devices out of which they are constructed.
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 15:01:41 UTC Type: ---
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Description Guil Barros 2012-02-22 20:16:29 UTC
Description of problem:
LVM will currently pick a path for a pv instead of the powerpath device. The functionality requested is for lvm to notice the emcpower device and hook up to that instead. This is already committed upstream here:

http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/lib/filters/filter.c.diff?r1=1.66&r2=1.67&cvsroot=lvm2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lvm2-2.02.87-6.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a system with EMC PowerPath as the mp driver
2. use lvm
  
Actual results:
# pvscan -v
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Wiping internal VG cache
    Walking through all physical volumes
  PV /dev/cciss/c0d2p1    VG rootvg          lvm2 [33.91 GiB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/sda   VG vg1         lvm2 [34.69 GiB / 0    free]
...

Expected results:
# pvscan -v
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Wiping internal VG cache
    Walking through all physical volumes
  PV /dev/cciss/c0d2p1    VG rootvg          lvm2 [33.91 GiB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/emcpoweraa   VG vg1         lvm2 [34.69 GiB / 0    free]
...

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 15:01:41 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0962.html

Comment 8 Ademar Reis 2012-07-11 14:33:04 UTC
*** Bug 825920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***