[dm-devel] Making failover work quickly with QLogic HBAs

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2005-04-21T14:21:25, Arthur Bergman <sky at nanisky.com> wrote:

> There has been discussions that this is not supported behaviour and 
> could cause problems, in particular the supported configurations of big 
> blue for their SDD multipath product states that you shouldn't do 
> this...

This is about DM multipath, not about SDD multipath, so I couldn't care
less about what big blue supports there ;-)

But seriously, can you point me at those discussions? Are there any real
problems caused by this beyond the depreciated sdd multipath...? It
seems to help quite a bit for me; w/o, failover times are inacceptable.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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