Re: 3ware and erroneous multipathing - duplicate serial numbers (was: 3ware and dmraid)

2008-02-11 Thread Heinz Mauelshagen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:54:29AM -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: Much later I figured out that dmraid -b reported two of the disks as being the same: Looks like the md sync duplicated the metadata and dmraid just spots that

Re: 3ware and erroneous multipathing - duplicate serial numbers (was: 3ware and dmraid)

2008-01-18 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:17 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: [ Uh, I just realized that I forgot to update the subject line as I figured out what was going on; it's obviously not a software raid problem but a multipath problem ] One of my boxes crashed (with a hardware error, I think - CPU and

Re: 3ware and erroneous multipathing - duplicate serial numbers (was: 3ware and dmraid)

2008-01-18 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: Much later I figured out that dmraid -b reported two of the disks as being the same: Looks like the md sync duplicated the metadata and dmraid just spots that duplication. You gotta remove one of the duplicates to clean this up but

Re: 3ware and erroneous multipathing - duplicate serial numbers (was: 3ware and dmraid)

2008-01-18 Thread Heinz Mauelshagen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:23:24AM -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:17 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: [ Uh, I just realized that I forgot to update the subject line as I figured out what was going on; it's obviously not a software raid problem but a multipath problem ]