Am 19.01.13 20:18, schrieb Bob Friesenhahn:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Stephan Budach wrote:
Just ignore the timestamp, as it seems that the time is not set
correctly, but the dates match my two issues from today and thursday,
which accounts for three days. I didn't catch that before, but it
seems to clearly indicate a problem with the FC connection…
But, what do I make of this information?
I don't know, but the issue/problem seems to below the zfs level so
you need to fix that lower level before worrying about zfs.
Yes, I do think that as well.
Did you check for messages in /var/adm/messages which might indicate
when and how FC connectivity has been lost?
Well, this is the most scaring part to me. Neither fmdump nor dmesg
showed anything that would indicate a connectivity issue - at least
not the last time.
Weird. I wonder if multipathing is working for you at all. With my
direct-connect setup, if a path is lost, then there is quite a lot of
messaging to /var/adm/messages. I also see a lot of messaging related
to multipathing when the system boots and first starts using the
array. However, with the direct-connect setup, the HBA can report
problems immediately if it sees a loss of signal. Your issues might
be on the other side of the switch (on the storage array side) so the
local HBA does not see the problem and timeouts are used. Make sure
to check the logs in your storage array to see if it is encountering
resets or flapping connectivity.
I will check that.
Do you have duplex switches so that there are fully-redundant paths,
or is only one switch used?
Well, no… I don't have enough switch ports on my FC San, but we will
replace these Sanboxes with Nexus Switches from Cisco this year and I
will have multipathing then.
Bob
Thanks,
Stephan
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