[dm-devel] Multipath and primary pathing

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:02:13AM -0500, Nigel Reed wrote:
> Hi Christophe, and dev team.
> 
> I didn't see a mailing list so I hope you don't mind a direct email.
> 
> I have a customer who is using a netapp with primary and partner pathing.
> It looks like data is being sent between the two paths. The customer is
> wanting data to go down only the primary path unless it fails, then switch
> to the secondary partner path.
> 
> I've tried several different configurations but cannot seem to get it to
> work.

If I could have a look at

/etc/multipath.conf

and the output of

# multipath -ll

it would be easier to guess what's going on.

-Ben

> 
> They're using a combination of RHEL 4.9 and 5.6 with the earliest version
> of multipath being 4.5
> 
> If you can give me some help, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nigel
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