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EMC PowerPath for Linux Version 4.5 and Point Releases Release Notes
Known Problems and Limitations
Known Problems and Limitations
This section describes the known problems and limitations in
PowerPath 4.5.x for Linux.
Known Problems
The following problems have been reported for PowerPath 4.4.x and
4.5.x for Linux.
Table 1-7 Known Problems in PowerPath
Description
Found in
Version Workaround
235687
PowerPath SE (the unlicensed version of PowerPath) does not support
back-end failover for storage systems that are attached through iSCSI on
hosts that are running RHEL4 U2 and higher.
4.5.1 None.
231632
On SLES 9 SP3, running the OracleASM start/scandisks/stop commands
may panic the host after 20-30 iterations of the loop.
4.5.1 None.
230036
SCSI 3 PGR-based I/O fencing does not work on a PowerPath host in a VCS
cluster.
PowerPath 4.5.x does not work correctly with any application that uses
SCSI-3 persistent register/reserve/preempt commands. Refer to “Limitations”
on page 18.
4.5.0 None.
229447
VxVM 4.1 pseudo device mappings (emcpower mappings) may become
inconsistent with PowerPath pseudo device mappings. Circumstances that
may cause inconsistencies include:
• VxVM 4.1 is uninstalled and reinstalled after a LUN configuration change.
VxVM maps pseudo devices based on device information saved before
the uninstall, and these mappings may differ from the current PowerPath
mappings and configuration.
• A pseudo device instance is renamed using emcpadm, which causes
VxVM 4.1 to lose the pseudo device mapping.
4.5.0 To fix inconsistent device mappings:
1. Enter:
cp /etc/vx/disk.info
/etc/vx/disk.info.old
2. Enter:
echo >
/etc/vx/disk.info
3. Enter:
vxconfigd -k
227570
Uninstalling PowerPath does not remove the emcpower files from the
/dev directory.
4.4.1 Manually remove the files.
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