Documentation for MultipathD
The multipathd supports the devicemapper with the configuration of the harddrives which are mounted with more than one path.
Important Files
The configuration file for the multipathd is the following: - /etc/multipath.conf This file holds the configuratipn… – Blacklisting – Exceptions – Assignment – and so on… This files would be generated by the multipathd:
/etc/multipath/bindingsControls the assignment
/etc/multipath/wwidsIncludes the wwids
Tools
The tool to build and change the configurationsfiles is mpathconf. With it you can modify the /etc/multipath.conf. You also could modify the /etc/multipath.conf manually. Example:
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defaults {
udev_dir /dev
no_path_retry 1
polling_interval 10
path_checker tur
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
user_friendly_names yes
selector "round-robin 0"
max_fds "4128"
}
blacklist {
devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
devnode "^hd[a-z]"
devnode "^dcssblk[0-9]*"
wwid "*"
}
blacklist_exceptions {
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757802"
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757801"
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757800"
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757803"
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757804"
}
multipaths {
multipath {
uid 54321
gid 0
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757800"
mode 0660
alias AliasA
}
multipath {
uid 54321
gid 0
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757801"
mode 0660
alias AliasB
}
multipath {
uid 54321
gid 0
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757802"
mode 0660
alias AliasC
}
multipath {
uid 54321
gid 0
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757803"
mode 0660
alias AliasD
}
multipath {
uid 54321
gid 0
wwid "3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757804"
mode 0660
alias AliasE
}
}
I think this file is selfexplained :)
Determine WWIDs
To get the WWIDs you can use the command scsi_id -g -u /dev/sdb. You will get the WWID for the device sdb. With this little for-loop for device in /dev/sd*; do echo "Device: ${device} $(scsi_id -g -u ${device})"; done you will get all WWIDs for the devices. The output should look like that:
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> Device: /dev/sdb 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757800
> Device: /dev/sdc 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757801
> Device: /dev/sdd 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757802
> Device: /dev/sde 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757803
> Device: /dev/sdf 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757804
> Device: /dev/sdg 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757800
> Device: /dev/sdh 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757801
> Device: /dev/sdi 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757802
> Device: /dev/sdj 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757803
> Device: /dev/sdk 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757804
> Device: /dev/sdl 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757800
> Device: /dev/sdm 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757801
> Device: /dev/sdn 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757802
> Device: /dev/sdo 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757803
> Device: /dev/sdp 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757804
> Device: /dev/sdq 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757800
> Device: /dev/sdr 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757801
> Device: /dev/sds 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757802
> Device: /dev/sdt 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757803
> Device: /dev/sdu 3600d0230000000000e13955cc3757804
You have to put this WWIDs into the multipath.conf. You also can use other criterias to set the exceptions, the vendor for example.
Autoconfig with multipathd
When everything in the configurationsfile is done correctly , the multipathd needs to be restartet service multipathd restart and the devicemapper should do his magic. You should check if the multipathd is in the autostart. chkconfig multipathd --list when not chkconfig multipathd on.