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  • Multipathing and persistent device names

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    I was in the process of adding 4 additional luns to a system whereby I have configured 4 paths to my storage.

    I rescanned the SCSI interconnect to add the disks to the system, I then ran lsblk to confirm all of the new device ids could be seen successfully:

    sddi 61:0 0 10G 0 disk
    sddj 61:16 0 42G 0 disk
    sddk 61:32 0 30G 0 disk
    sddl 61:48 0 12G 0 disk
    sddm 61:64 0 10G 0 disk
    sddn 61:12 0 42G 0 disk
    sddo 61:96 0 30G 0 disk
    sddp 61:112 0 12G 0 disk
    sddq 61:128 0 10G 0 disk
    sddr 61:144 0 42G 0 disk
    sdds 61:130 0 30G 0 disk
    sddt 61:176 0 12G 0 disk
    sddu 61:192 0 10G 0 disk
    sddv 61:208 0 42G 0 disk
    sddw 61:224 0 30G 0 disk
    sddx 61:42 0 12G 0 disk

    I get 4 device entires for each indivdiual device, due to the 4 paths to each device.

    I then tried to obtain the WWID of the disk devices in order to do my multipath configuration:

    ls -lrt /dev/disk/by-id
    scsi-360002af1111110001a003be300009b21 -> ../../sdds
    scsi-360002af1111110001a003be200009b21 -> ../../sddv
    wwn-0x60002af1111110001a003be300009b21 -> ../../sdds
    wwn-0x60002af1111110001a003be200009b21 -> ../../sddv
    scsi-360002af1111110001a003be400009b21 -> ../../sddx
    wwn-0x60002af1111110001a003be400009b21 -> ../../sddx
    scsi-360002af1111110001a003be000009b21 -> ../../sddu
    wwn-0x60002af1111110001a003be000009b21 -> ../../sddu

    Can anyone tell me why the persistant device name only references a single disk device? Does multipath change this mapping each time an alternative path to the device is used?

    Many thanks,

    James

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