How to get rid of 'ghost running' in multipath output in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
Issue
How to get rid of 'ghost running' in multipath output in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
# iscsiadm --mode node
xxxx.com.netapp:5481.xxcec00000000529cb60b
xxxx.com.netapp:5481.xxcec00000000529cb60b
xxxx.com.netapp:5481.xxcec00000000529cb60b
xxxx.com.netapp:5481.xxcec00000000529cb60b
# multipath -ll
mpathc (123456789) dm-13 LSI,INF-01-00
size=2.2T features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=6 status=active
| |- 4:0:0:2 sdj 8:144 active ready running
| `- 6:0:0:2 sdg 8:96 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled
|- 5:0:0:2 sdf 8:80 active ghost running
`- 7:0:0:2 sdi 8:128 active ghost running
mpathb (123456789) dm-14 LSI,INF-01-00
size=2.2T features='3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=6 status=active
| |- 7:0:0:1 sde 8:64 active ready running
| `- 5:0:0:1 sdc 8:32 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled
|- 4:0:0:1 sdh 8:112 active ghost running
`- 6:0:0:1 sdd 8:48 active ghost running
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
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