[CentOS] SUMMARY : multipath using defaults rather than multipath.conf contents for some devices (?) - why ?

2009-09-27 Thread McCulloch, Alan
The reason for the behaviour observed below turned out to be that the device entry in /etc/multipath.conf was inadvertently appended *after* the devices section , rather than inside it - so that we had #devices { #device { #blah blah #} (file has a bunch of

[CentOS] multipath using defaults rather than multipath.conf contents for some devices (?) - why ?

2009-09-16 Thread McCulloch, Alan
hi all We have a rh linux server connected to two HP SAN controllers, one an HSV200 (on the way out), the other an HSV400 (on the way in). (Via a Qlogic HBA). /etc/multipath.conf contains this : device { vendor (COMPAQ|HP) product

Re: [CentOS] multipath using defaults rather than multipath.conf contents for some devices (?) - why ?

2009-09-16 Thread McCulloch, Alan
multipath.conf contents for some devices (?) - why ? McCulloch, Alan wrote: hi all We have a rh linux server connected to two HP SAN controllers, one an HSV200 (on the way out), the other an HSV400 (on the way in). (Via a Qlogic HBA). /etc/multipath.conf contains this : device

[CentOS] SUMMARY : Repair Filesystem prompt , after inode has illegal blocks ; qla2xxx message on reboot

2009-09-14 Thread McCulloch, Alan
hi All, thanks for the responses. After being dropped into the # Filesystem repair prompt, ( on account of inode 27344909 has illegal blocks ) following warm reboot (via reboot) after finding (SAN ) filesystem in read-only mode yesterday morning (possibly because of HBA fault on SAN) , I

[CentOS] Repair Filesystem prompt , after inode has illegal blocks

2009-09-13 Thread McCulloch, Alan
hi All, A fault on our SAN dropped us down to a read-only filesystem and after reboot, we have an Unexpected Inconsistency and I am being instructed by the boot to run fsck manually without -a or -p (this was after I think processing around 15% of the filesystem) The specific message is

[CentOS] qla2xxx 0000:05:0d.0: Mailbox command timeout occured. Scheduling ISP abort.

2009-09-13 Thread McCulloch, Alan
hi All, Re below - thanks for the replies to the fsck question. I have run fsck -r /data and this eventually completed with several changes made. Now I am getting the following error from the qla2xxx driver on boot . . . qla2xxx :05:0d.0: Mailbox command timeout occured. Scheduling ISP