After a reboot, multipath does not automatically add all the paths to multipath device
Issue
- After a reboot, multipath does not automatically add all the paths to multipath device
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multipath devices are not fully assembled after a reboot, some paths are skipped randomly.
e.g. after system reboot below multipath device shows only one path while it has one more path:mpatha (3600a0999999992222222222999999992) dm-0 NETAPP ,LUN C-Mode size=16G features='4 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50 retain_attached_hw_handle' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=rw `-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=50 status=active `- 2:0:0:2 sdg 8:96 active ready running
This issue occurs only when multipath is configured to blacklist all the wwids and accept only specific devices mentioned in
blacklist_exceptions
:e.g. $ less /etc/multipath.conf blacklist { wwid "*" } # blacklist exceptions blacklist_exceptions { wwid "3600a0999999992222222222999999991" wwid "3600a0999999992222222222999999992" } [...]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- device-mapper-multipath <
0.4.9-127.el7
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