Is everything working correctly on the target side?

Adam

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:28:32PM +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an S10U3 system with an iSCSI initiator that's supposed to be
> connected to and iSCSI target on another Sun box (runnin Nevada
> build 57).
> 
> Yesterday we had a number of power cuts, affecting both machines.
> Unfortunately the one with the target boots rather slowly.
> 
> So my system boots up and says:
> 
> Mar 14 16:24:00 foobar iscsi: [ID 286457 kern.notice] NOTICE: iscsi
> connection(5) unable to connect to target
> iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:ca0776bd-2ce7-4771-82b0-e1d529b5059a
> (errno:146)
> 
> As a result, my zpool goes offline.
> 
> Now everything is back up again, how do I convince it to reactivate
> the connection?
> 
> No amount of restarting the initiator or poking with devfsadm or
> format or cfgadm seems to do anything.
> 
> The way I found was actually to run 'zpool status' which seemed to
> kick it just the right way so that the connection gets reestablished
> and I can then see the pool and the device in format. What it didn't
> do was remount the filesystems. OK, so I get in as root and run
> 'zfs mount -a'.
> 
> This level of manual recovery is rather unsatisfactory. Is there a
> better way to make sure that the initiator reconnects cleanly
> even if the target isn't yet ready?
> 
> -- 
> -Peter Tribble
> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development       http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
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