How to make previously read-only LUNs writable on RHEL after disk replication split without rebooting

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Issue

EMC SRDF is being used for asynchronous disk replication between two sites. At the standby site, the SAN is configured as read-only. After splitting the disks (disabling replication), the SAN disks are made writable from the storage side. However, the server continues to detect these disks as read-only. The disks are recognized as writable only after rebooting the server.

However, rebooting the server is not a viable option in this scenario, as it would disrupt other critical workloads running on the system that cannot be interrupted.

Is there a way to 'refresh' the read-only status on the LUNs without rebooting?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • EMC SRDF disk replication

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