Bug#833528: multipath-tools: Multipathd reports failed paths as active, but with increased error count.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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Hello,

On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 16:13 +0300, Panos Gotsis wrote:
> We have our nodes installed with the latest patched jessie. The OS version
> comes with
> multipath-tools-0.5.0-6+deb8u2. The system uses iscsi to connect to a SAN
> storage (Netapp).
> 
> The multipathd daemon starts properly and assembles the multipath devices for
> the iscsi LUNs.
> However, when testing how it handles failures, we are seeing that for LUNs
> that we have set
> offline or delete completely on our storage system, the output of multipath -l
> or, even
> better, dmsetup status, is not showing these paths as failed, but as active,
> and it only
> increments the fail_count counter.

Can you share the steps you followed for deleting the LUNs ?
Were the LUNs in use on the Host, when you deleted it on the target ?
Did you rescan your session on the Host, after deleting the LUNs on the target ?


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