[dm-devel] kernel crash with multipath-tools v0.4.7

[Praveen Dhanasekaran - PTI]

Hello Dr. Hannes, 
 
   Thanks for your reply. We are trying to help a customer on this issue who want to use our RAID storage to 
store video files. The customer is using a special Video Capture/Encoding hardware and Video workflow 
supported only for kernel 2.6.26. The vendor of this video solution is no longer there and has closed down. 
The customer has spent more than $300K on this proprietary video solution that they cannot move to the 
latest kernel and is stuck with it. 
 
   Since updating the kernel is not possible, somehow I want to provide a targeted workaround for this issue. 
 
Thanks,
Praveen
 

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From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare at suse.de]
Sent: Thu 6/13/2013 1:25 AM
To: device-mapper development
Cc: Praveen Dhanasekaran - PTI; Mohan Rowlands - PTU; Manoj Mathew - PTU; Nagendra Vadlakunta - PTU
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] kernel crash with multipath-tools v0.4.7



On 06/12/2013 01:03 PM, Praveen Dhanasekaran - PTI wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a RAID storage box connected to a Linux server through fc
> cables. The server is using
> kernel 2.6.26, and multipath-tools v0.4.7 (with dm-mpath target
> version 1.0.5) is installed on it
> to handle the disk scsi devices from the storage box. The multipath
> device is mounted and
> used for a file system.
> 
This kernel is ancient, and there were several fixes for the SCSI
layer to fixup these issues.
Update the kernel or talk to your linux distributor.

(I know of one who'd be happy to help you out :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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