Created attachment 659101 [details] Details-commands - dmproblem.txt Description of problem: Please see attachment dmproblem.txt! About 1-2 months ago I've noticed that some drives are not available for my system, but accessible after running partprobe. After more investigation - I was unable to access them via /dev/sd* naming. Not really sure that it's a problem of device-mapper, but it's closer to that. Problem might be somehow related to ovirt-engine installation too done in same period. Configuration files verified with RPM, nothing special found: no extra files, no special changes. Not sure is this device-mapper or other problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -qa|sort output attached + yum update log. How reproducible: Not sure, but installing same packages may give same results. Actual results: Disk devices are sometimes not accessible as /dev/sd*, binding is strandly done via /dev/mapper. Expected results: Block devices must be accessible through /dev/sd* naming or at least it should not depend on time or partprobe Additional info: PC configuration won't be changed while this bug will be open or assigned.
Created attachment 659102 [details] installed packages for the moment output of rpm -qa|sort
Created attachment 659103 [details] yum.log since ovirt installation
It looks like you have enabled device-mapper-multipath without blacklisting the local disks. This means that they are bound to device-mapper devices under /dev/mapper using the disks WWID/serial as the device name. The other possibility is that you have some BIOS/"fake" RAID configuration on these disks (e.g. Intel ISW RAID or Matrix RAID). From the names you have it doesn't appear that this is the case (they typically include the metadata format used on the disks). You can confirm this by examining the output of "dmsetup info -c". Look at the device UUIDs which contain a string (e.g. lvm2, mpath, kpartx) indicating the application that created the mapped device. When using dmraid or multipath the normal SCSI device nodes are removed to prevent their being accidentally used instead of the redundant dm device.
Package device-mapper-multipath was installed and removed and that's the result. Package device-mapper-multipath-libs is still there. No HW/mdraid/dmraid(fakeraid) in here - pure native SATA only, and because of this "dmsetup info -c" shows only LVM mapping. Very strange thing for me was the issue about the time, when after few minutes some mappings were lost. :S I've updated packages to the latest available versions and now everything works fine, all the mappings are correct and all the paths in /dev/disk/ are OK.
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