From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xose Vazquez Perez Subject: fedora/rh: is hp_tur checker still needed? Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:12:21 +0200 Message-ID: <859fb60d-10ee-00e8-b4d9-53ff237c2336@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Benjamin Marzinski Cc: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids Hi Benjamin, Doc says: On some storage devices, if a LUN is deleted from an existing multipathd device, and a new LUN is presented to the host, it may end up with the same LUN ID and name as the old LUN. In this case, multipath will assume that this is the old LUN and belongs to the existing multipath device. This cause cause corruption. A new path checker "hp_tur" has been added that verifies the WWID of the LUN when it checks the path, to avoid this problem. Code: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/device-mapper-multipath.git/plain/0007-RH-add-hp_tur-checker.patch