[dm-devel] rdac mode on SLES10SP1
Hannes Reinecke
hare at suse.de
Fri Sep 14 07:06:22 UTC 2007
Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Kirill Cherkashin
>
>> Could you advise me on next matter.
>> We have DS4800 connected to SLES10&9. At the moment we're using 'native'
>> IBM rdac driver but we're going to soon jump to Linux mpio.
>> According to Novell's support site in SP1(with kernel 2.6.16) MPIO
>> would be supported by in rdac mode.
>>
>>
>> However, here I found that it should happened only with 2.6.23 kernel.
>
> The RDAC hardware handler is included (in a usable form) in the
> kernel.org kernels starting from 2.6.23-rc4, if I recall correctly.
>
> I assume SuSE has simply backported it to their 2.6.16 kernel. I know
> Red Hat has done the same for RHEL5.1, at least.
>
This is the case. RDAC mode work with SP1.
Occasionally documentation is correct :-)
Cheers,
Hannes
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