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May 15th, 2021 09:00

Linux "lsblk -f" wont report proper partition info in PowerPath

Can anyone confirm the following behavior when going through the powerpath pseudo??
Using lsblk to view partition info for a LUN, the tool fails to parse the partition headers correctly
I see this on all the LUNs, yet take the following LUN for example :

Pseudo name=emcpowerct
Logical device ID=60060160879A276554A00EFA044AAEF001E [FAST1]
=============================================================
-------Host---------- -Stor - -- I/O Path-- -- Stats ---
### I/O Paths Interf. Mode State Q-IOs Errors
=============================================================
3 lpfc sdck SP A2 active alive 0 0
8 lpfc sdbh SP A3 active alive 0 0
12 lpfc sdef SP B2 active alive 0 0
11 lpfc sdca SP B3 active alive 0 0

This LUN has a single GPT partition, initialized as an Oracle ASM filesystem.
Here's what 'lsblk -f' reports {correctly} on all physical paths:

[root@srv0801] lsblk -f /dev/sdck
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sdck
└─sdck1 oracleasm FAST01

[root@srv0801] lsblk -f /dev/sdbh
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sdbh
└─sdbh1 oracleasm FAST01

[root@srv0801] lsblk -f /dev/sdef
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sdef
└─sdef1 oracleasm FAST01

[root@srv0801] lsblk -f /dev/sdca
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sdca
└─sdca1 oracleasm FAST01

Now let's check the same LUN via the pseudo path:

[root@srv0801] lsblk -f /dev/emcpowerct
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
emcpowerct
└─emcpowerct1

Notice anything missing ^^^ ???
It detects the single partition, yet not the FSTYPE or LABEL.
I repeated this with Multipath pseudos - works fine.
I repeated this on an older system (rhel6 & powerpath 5.7.3 ) - works fine.
However, currently on rhel8 & powerpath 7.1 (and also 7.2) are showing this issue of missing info.
Why ?? If powerpath is having an issue translating simple geometry, I'm hesitant about moving our rhel8 systems into production.

FWIW, the rhel8 kernels I've repeated the issue on so far are :
4.18.0-193.41.1.el8_2
4.18.0-147.32.1.el8_1

Is anyone else in the community running RedHat EL8 and PowerPath 7.1 or 7.2, & Dell Unity storage seeing this behavior?

 

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May 17th, 2021 11:00

Hello cronobandit,

I would open a support case so that we can look into this issue.

May 21st, 2021 03:00

Thanks for the advisement, I'll take that into consideration.

Meanwhile, I'd like to know if anyone else in the community has seen this behavior as well, and/or if it is repeatable / not repeatable ?? Before I waste Dell's time, I'm trying to vet if this could be an issue with my specific environment, or a greater issue with newer PowerPath and kernels versions.

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