Seeing 'read failed after 0 of 4096' when running LVM commands with multipath storage

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Issue

  • Seeing 'read failed after 0 of 4096' when running LVM commands with multipath storage
# pvs
/dev/sde: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdm: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • device-mapper-multipath
  • LVM

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