On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 15:18 +0200, Gioh Kim wrote: > > I would like to inform you of what I found out. > 1. 'multipathd add path sdx' is executed > 2. Adding thd sdx also creates a map. > 3. The multipathd daemon waits for the change uevent from kernel. > 4. Another sd device sdy is added with 'multipathd add path sdy' > command > 5. adding sdy is not done and multipathd prints a message "sdy: > orphan > path, waiting for create to complete" > 6. Something (I guess it is the checker thread) removes and adds the > dm device > 7. sdy is removed with a message "sdy: orphan path, path removed > externally". I guess the checker thread removes sdy as well. > > I am not sure what removes the dm device and sdy device. > I guess it would be the check thread due to the "sdy: orphan path, > path removed externally" message. > > Therefore I just added the 'udevadm settle' command after the > 'multipathd add path sdx' command. > So whenever my script executes 'multipathd add path', it also > executes > 'udevadm settle'. > Then my test is fine for a long time. > >
This really sounds like a bug in the wait_for_udev handling. Could you provide a full log of these events with "verbosity 3"? No need to post it to the ML, send it privately or put it on some paste service. Regards Martin -- dm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
