Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 3
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11)
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 1Novell Storage Services (NSS)
Novell Storage Services Software RAID (mirror)
Situation
The following messages can appear in /var/log/messages:
kernel: MM_RemirrorPartition: XXXX.sbd, 1
kernel: NWRAID1: Stop Remirror (start) count=0
kernel: NWRAID1: Stop Remirror (start) count=0
kernel: [123456.789101] NWRAID1: Stop Remirror (end)
kernel: [123456.789101] NWRAID1: Remirror enabled
kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: Target type does not support messages
kernel: [123456.789101] device-mapper: multipath: Unrecognised multipath message received.
kernel: [123456.789101] device-mapper: multipath: Unrecognised multipath message received.
Resolution
These are harmless messages and can be safely ignored, below follows an explanation of these messages:
The server is telling the XXXX.sbd mirror to become "enabled" on this server. This message can be seen when a mirrored NSS pool is migrated from another cluster server.
When this request is received by the RAID (nwraid.ko) driver, it always starts a re-mirror process, just in case the mirrors were not in sync at the time of the switch. If they are in sync, it immediately finished successfully. The re-mirror process is an active process that brings a non-synchronized mirror into sync. When it is in sync, the process ends, and regular I/O will maintain the mirror.
kernel: [495218.771163] NWRAID1: Stop Remirror (start) count=0 state=4 wait=0
kernel: [495218.771163] NWRAID1: Stop Remirror (start) count=0 state=4 wait=0
The re-mirror process is done, and it is trying to finish up the process and clean up the re-mirror engines.
kernel: [495218.771168] NWRAID1: Stop Remirror (end)
The re-mirror process has successfully finished, and the server is completely done with the re-sync process.
These messages are expected, and indicate a successful process. Everything is good, and the mirrors are now fully in sync on this node.
kernel: [495218.771169] NWRAID1: Remirror enabled
These messages are expected, and indicate a successful process. Everything is good, and the mirrors are now fully in sync on this node.
kernel: [495218.771169] NWRAID1: Remirror enabled
The mirror has successfully been "enabled" on this node.
kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: Target type does not support messages
kernel: [495218.771289] device-mapper: multipath: Unrecognised multipath message received.
kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: Target type does not support messages
kernel: [495218.771289] device-mapper: multipath: Unrecognised multipath message received.
These messages indicate that a mirrored NSS pool has been migrated from another NCS cluster node.