Am 21.08.2011 21:49, schrieb Joseph L. Casale:

I have several CentOS 6 boxes that mount iscsi based luns and use mpath. They all had problems shutting down as a result of unused maps not getting flushed as the system halted.

After examining the init scripts, netfs, iscsi and multipathd all had the correct order but mpath failed to flush these maps and the system waited indefinitely.

That sounds as if the paths (SCSI block devices) where removed before multipath had a chance to flush its map(s).

In the meantime I hacked this by adding a `/sbin/multipath -F` at the end of the stop clause in the init script.

I seriously doubt this problems exists w/o being the result of my error in configuration. Anyone know what the required mpath config might be in this scenario where the block devices all disappear once netfs unmounts and iscsi stops?

You are sure about the order of the service stops? If you stop iscsi and remove the devices before multipath flushes the maps, you will end up in the situation described.

1) umount 2) vgchange -an if LVM is used on LUNs 3) flush multipaths 4) stop iscsi

Thanks! jlc

Alexander