From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 09:21:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76805106566B for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Subramani.Pasupathy@lsi.com) Received: from na3sys009aog120.obsmtp.com (na3sys009aog120.obsmtp.com [74.125.149.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C468D8FC15 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from paledge01.lsi.com ([192.19.193.42]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys009aob120.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUFbrsauRELV7V+/G5xA4uzGjfelhiS9e@postini.com; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 02:21:53 PDT Received: from PALHUB01.lsi.com (128.94.213.114) by PALEDGE01.lsi.com (192.19.193.42) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.264.0; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:21:55 -0400 Received: from PALEXCH11.lsi.com (128.94.223.42) by PALHUB01.lsi.com (128.94.213.114) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.264.0; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:14:19 -0400 Received: from inbexch01.lsi.com (135.36.98.37) by PALEXCH11.lsi.com (128.94.223.42) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.309.2; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:14:19 -0400 Received: from inbmail01.lsi.com ([135.36.98.64]) by inbexch01.lsi.com ([135.36.98.37]) with mapi; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:44:14 +0530 From: "Pasupathy, Subramani" To: "stable@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:44:14 +0530 Thread-Topic: Multipathing issue under FreeBSD Thread-Index: Ac2UtM5Y4PpaBi08QxOJP61SSy/C9g== Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Multipathing issue under FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:21:54 -0000 Hi, We carried few tests under FreeBSD using our LSI HBA after enabling multipa= thing. During the test of verifying the fail over, inconsistently we are ob= serving data corruption while removing the active path. The way we enabled = multipathing and steps that we had followed for the test are as below Procedure to Enable the Multipath: 1. Load the Multipath using the following cmd - "gmultipah load" 2. Make the following entry in the /boot/loder.conf - geom_multipath_load= =3D"YES" 3. Assign the label for the drives using the following cmd - gmultipah la= bel -v mpta /dev/da1 /dev/da2 4. Create the file system using the following cmd - newfs /dev/multipath/= mpta 5. Mount the file system to the /mnt/ location 6. Run the IO's on the mounted file system Observation details: 1. Connect the Enclosure with 2 to 3 SAS drives to system which has multi= path enabled. 2. Create the file system and run the IO's using the above procedure. 3. Unplug the Active path from the enclosure. 4. Sometimes the fail over on the passive path happens. But at times Data= corruption is seen on any one of drive while pulling out the active path f= rom the enclosure. On Other drives the IO still continue to run. 5. After removing the active path the multipath status will be shown up a= s degraded. Again on inserting the multipath the status will come up as opt= imal. The IOs are still running but the drive on which data corruption occu= rs the IOs never continue on that drive. The testing was done on two different enclosure and details are as follows. Server Enclosure Observation IBM x3650 M4 Camden 1 out 5 iterations Data corruption on any one of the drive. IBM x3650 M4 DELL Power Vault MD1220 1 out 5 iterations Data corruption on any one of the drive. Kindly let us know if there any issues similar to this has been reported to= the community. Or does it look like a fresh and does it really seem to be = potential defect? Best Regards Subramani