On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:06:30PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> Seen in RH 2.6.32. Applies fine to latest Debian 2.6.32.
> Please consider backport to longterm 2.6.32 and 2.6.33.
> 
> RH patch header says that:
> "Netapp is now supporting ALUA, and is hitting a bug
> where they get:
> 
> kernel: sd 7:0:0:1: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key: Not Ready
> kernel:     Add. Sense: Logical unit not accessible, asymmetric access
> state transition
> 
> and the IO is failed.
> 
> This is a retryable error, and the scsi_dh_alua is already set up
> to detect and retry it. Netapp devices are not yet in the alua
> list though, so this patch adds their boxes to it
> 
> Patch was made and tested by Netapp. I do not have any netpapp boxes
> that support this feature and the netapp sim does not either,
> so I just ran with the patch to check that it fails correctly
> on older boxes that do not support alua."

I needed to also apply commit cd4a8814d44672bd2c8f04a472121bfbe193809c
to get this one to work.

thanks,

greg k-h

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