[email protected] wrote on 07/28/2010 04:26:07 AM:

>
> I managed to configure the multipathing devices with device-mapper-
> multipathing rdac (active-passive), however while system is booting
> I can see a lot of messages like:
>
> Buffer I/O error on device sdaa, logical block 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdab, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdac, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdad, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdaf, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdae, sector 524287992
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdz, sector 524287936
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdab, sector 0
> printk: 6 messages suppressed.
> Buffer I/O error on device sdab, logical block 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdac, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdad, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdaf, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdae, sector 524287992
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdz, sector 524287984
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdab, sector 0
> […]
>
> Probably nash or something else during startup is checking all the
> devices (including the passive ones) that cause the very long system
> startup (we have like 26 FC devices).
> After startup device multipathig works fine, /dev/mapper is full of
> aliased devices, but still, from time to time, there are some error
> messages appering on the console. Like system was checking the passive
nodes.
>
> Is there any way to prevent such behavior ?

If you are running LVM on those devices you might check out Red Hat kbase
35489

https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-35489

At the top it says EMC Clariion SAN, but later it mentions what to do if
its using HP's cciss driver.

-greg

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