Can you post a "powermt display dev=all", a zpool status and format
command?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/13/2007 09:38:01 AM:
> How much fun can you have with a simple thing like powerpath?
>
> Here's the story: I have a (remote) system with access to a couple
> of EMC LUNs. Originally, I set it up with mpxio and created a simple
> zpool containing the two LUNs.
>
> It's now been reconfigured to use powerpath instead of mpxio.
>
> My problem is that I can't import the pool. I get:
>
> pool: ######
> id: ###################
> state: FAULTED
> status: One or more devices are missing from the system.
> action: The pool cannot be imported. Attach the missing
> devices and try again.
> see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
> config:
>
> disk00 UNAVAIL insufficient replicas
> c3t50060xxxxxxxxxxCd1 ONLINE
> c3t50060xxxxxxxxxxCd0 UNAVAIL cannot open
>
> Now, it's working up to the point at which it's worked out that
> the bits of the pool are in the right places. It just can't open
> all the bits. Why is that?
>
> I notice that it's using the underlying cXtXdX device names
> rather than the virtual emcpower{0,1} names. However, rather
> more worrying is that if I try to create a new pool, then it correctly
> fails if I use the cXtXdX device (warning me that it contains
> part of a pool) but if I go through the emcpower devices
> then I don't get a warning.
>
> (One other snippet - the cXtXdX device nodes look
> slightly odd, in that some of them look like the traditional
> SMI labelled nodes, while some are more in an EFI style
> with a device node for the disk.)
>
> Is there any way to fix this or are we going to have to
> start over?
>
> If we do start over, is powerpath going to behave itself
> or might this sort of issue bite us again in the future?
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions from any
> powerpath experts.
>
> --
> -Peter Tribble
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