After Fiber reconnected, number of LUNs attached to server increases on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
Issue
- When they re-connect the HBA cable to SAN switch, the number of Volumes are 10 times than real number.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Observed on kernel-2.6.18-308.el5. Unknown if other versions are affected at this stage.
- SAN storage provided to server
- Observed on EMC DMX4 2500 (EMC SYMMETRIX), but unknown if other versions are affected at this stage.
- At least 2x paths to each LUN
- Observed on qlogic HBA, but unknown if it is restricted to this version.
- device-mapper-multipath (observed on device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-34.el5)
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