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Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux 197

Limitations and Known Issues

• In certain error conditions with the no_path_retry or the

queue_if_no_path feature is set, applications may hang. To overcome

these conditions the you must enter the following command for each

affected multipath device:

dmsetup message [device] 0 "fail_if_no_path"

where [device] is the multipath device name (e.g. mpath2; do not specify

the path)

• I/O may hang when a Device Mapper device is deleted before the volume

is unmounted.

• If the scsi_dh_rdac module is not included in initrd, slower device

discovery may be seen and the syslog may become populated with buffer

I/O error messages.

• I/O may hang if the host server or storage array is rebooted while I/O is

active. All I/O to the storage array must be stopped before shutting down

or rebooting the host server or storage array.

multipath –f

<multipath_dev_node>

Flushes out Device Mapper for the specified multipathing

device. Used if the underlying physical devices are

deleted/unmapped.

multipath –F Flushes out all unused multipathing device maps.

rescan_dm_devs Dell provided script. Forces a rescan of the host SCSI bus

and aggregates multipathing devices as needed. For use

when:

• LUNs are dynamically mapped to the hosts.

• New targets are added to the host.

• Failback of the storage array is required.

• For MD3200i Series arrays, iSCSI sessions have to be

established for rescan to take effect.

Table 14-1. Useful Device Mapper Commands

(continued)

Command Descriptions

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