[ewg] Re: SRP HA dm_multipath testing and questions

[Chieng Etta]

I tried adding/removing new storage on sles10.  It took few minutes to find
the new target devices (the new target message was showed on
/var/log/messages) then took few minutes to add the path. I did not run
multipath again.  The srp_daemon.sh scanned the new target and added path
automatically.  

Thanks,
Etta

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) [mailto:sweitzen at cisco.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:59 PM
To: Ishai Rabinovitz; Chieng Etta
Cc: Roland Dreier (rdreier); ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; openib;
mkohari at novell.com
Subject: RE: [ewg] Re: SRP HA dm_multipath testing and questions

I haven't tried adding or removing storage, just failover.  I guess
leave 91-srp.rules in for now, it seems benign.

Scott 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ishai Rabinovitz [mailto:ishai at dev.mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:46 PM
> To: Chieng Etta
> Cc: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen); Roland Dreier (rdreier); 
> ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; 'openib'; mkohari at novell.com
> Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: SRP HA dm_multipath testing and questions
> 
> Chieng Etta wrote:
> > 
> > Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
> >> I've been testing SRP HA and dm_multipath with:
> >> - RHEL4 U3 x86_64, Cisco FC Gateway, and Sun T4 RAID
> >> - RHEL4 U3 x86_64, Cisco FC Gateway, and Sun 3510 RAID
> >> - SLES10 x86_64, Cisco FC Gateway, and 3 JBODs
> >>  
> >> On RHEL4, I edited /etc/multipath.conf, ran "chkconfig 
> multipathd on", 
> >> then rebooted.  On SLES 10, I ran "chkconfig 
> boot.multipath on" and 
> >> "chkconfig multipathd on", then rebooted.  Ishai, I don't 
> seem to need 
> >> 91-srp.rules, are you using the boot.multipath and 
> multipathd scripts?
> > 
> > On RHEL4 you really do not need 91-srp.rules and it is not used (see
> > /etc/init.d/openibd)
> > On SLES10 I was sure that you need it. I checked it, and 
> you are correct. I
> > don't see how it does it, but it seems that when using 
> boot.multipath there
> > is no need for 91-srp.rules. I will check it more deeply and change
> > documentation and openibd script accordingly. 
> > 
> > [EC] I just verified it on SLES10 x86_64.  The multipath 
> worked fine by
> > using boot.multipath without 91-srp.rules.
> > 
> In one of Novell's documents (SLES 10 Storage Administration 
> Guide for EVMS - In section 5 Managing Multipath I/O for 
> Devices 
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/index.html?page=/do
cumentation/sles10/stor_evms/data/multipathing.html) it says in
subsection 5.7 that after a new target > was discovered there is a need
to actively execute multipath. 
> (As I understand it from the document this is true even after 
> boot.multipath is running) 
> 
> Experiments in my environment also indicates that after 
> executing boot.multipath, SRP HA is working also without 
> 91-srp.rules, but after reading this document I'm even more confused.
> 
> 
> 
> > Ishai, in the SRP release notes - section 6, srp_daemon a., 
> the first line
> > should be changed to '"srp_daemon -a -o" is equivalent to 
> "ibsrpdm"'.
> > 
> > 
> Thanks, However Scott already noticed that and I already 
> fixed it. You will see it in the next documentation version.
>