vgimport write failed error after SRDF split
Issue
- During a disaster recovery where SRDF is used to provide disaster restart solutions, replication link are splitted and status of LUNs are turned from "Write protected" to "Read-Write". However, the vgimport operation fails and reporting below error.
# vgimport testvg
/dev/mapper/mpathak: write failed after 0 of 12288 at 158208: Operation not permitted
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- EMC SRDF(Symmetrix Remote Data Facility)
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