Why does `pvs` throw errors like "Input/output error" after installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on multipath devices?

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Issue

  • Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 on multipath devices and pvs reports the following errors.
  /dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 65536 at 0: Input/output error
  /dev/sdb: read failed after 0 of 65536 at 21474770944: Input/output error
  /dev/sde: read failed after 0 of 65536 at 0: Input/output error
  /dev/sde: read failed after 0 of 65536 at 21474770944: Input/output error
  /dev/sdh: read failed after 0 of 65536 at 0: Input/output error
  /dev/sdh: read failed after 0 of 65536 at 21474770944: Input/output error
  PV         VG           Fmt  Attr PSize  PFree
  /dev/md1   vg_test lvm2 a--  14.64g 940.00m

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

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