System information

The Linux SCSI layer sets a timer on each command. When this timer expires, the SCSI layer will
quiesce the host bus adapter (HBA) and wait for all outstanding commands to either time out or
complete. Afterwards, the SCSI layer will activate the driver's error handler.
When the error handler is triggered, it attempts the following operations in order (until one
successfully executes):
1. Abort the command.
2. Reset the device.
3. Reset the bus.
4. Reset the host.
If all of these operations fail, the device will be set to the o ffl i ne state. When this occurs, all I/O to
that device will be failed, until the problem is corrected and the user sets the device to runni ng .
The process is different, however, if a device uses the fibre channel protocol and the rpo rt is
blocked. In such cases, the drivers wait for several seconds for the rpo rt to become online again
before activating the error handler. This prevents devices from becoming offline due to temporary
transport problems.
Device States
To display the state of a device, use:
$ cat /sys/block/device-name/device/state
To set a device to runni ng state, use:
$ echo running > /sys/block/device-name/device/state
Command Timer
To control the command timer, you can write to /sys/bl o ck/device-name/d evi ce/ti meo ut. To
do so, run:
echo value /sys/bl o ck/device-name/d evi ce/ti meo ut
Here, value is the timeout value (in seconds) you want to implement.
25.18. Online St orage Configurat ion T roubleshoot ing
This section provides solution to common problems users experience during online storage
reconfiguration.
Lo g ical u n it remo val st at u s is n o t ref lect ed on t h e h o st .
When a logical unit is deleted on a configured filer, the change is not reflected on the host.
In such cases, l vm commands will hang indefinitely when d m-mul ti path is used, as the
logical unit has now become stale.
To work around this, perform the following procedure:
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