[dm-devel] raw devices with multipathing and SUN Storedge 3511
Antonello Piemonte
apiemont at eso.org
Tue Aug 8 09:00:50 UTC 2006
Hello
I have two questions:
1) is it ok to use raw devices with device mapper and multipathing?
I have the following simple setup under RHEL4.3 (x86_64), e.g. one LUN
exported from a SUNStoredge 3511 directly to the host which has two HBA,
therefore I see the same LUN twice, as sdc and sdd:
# multipath -l
mpath2 (3600c0ff00000000009279811b3f44a00)
[size=1862 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [active]
\_ 1:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 [active][ready]
\_ 2:0:0:0 sdd 8:48 [active][ready]
I made 2 partitions on the mpath2 device and used kpartx to make is
visible to device mapper, e.g.
# ll /dev/mpath/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 7 17:50 mpath2 -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 8 10:32 mpath2p1 -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 8 10:32 mpath2p2 -> ../dm-2
if I then proceed to asssigne raw devices, it seems to work
# raw /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/dm-2
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 253, minor 2
# raw -qa
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 253, minor 2
is then suitable to use /dev/raw/raw2 with databases
(namely sybase ASE 15)?
2) second question: is the SUN Storedge 3511 an active/active array and if
not, do I need to worry about hardware handlers specific for it?
many thanks for your help!
antonello
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