[dm-devel] dm_mirror/dm_raid1 limitations ?.

[Marian Csontos]

On 01/26/2015 04:34 PM, suresh.babu.kandukuru at oracle.com wrote:
> Heinzm,thanks for the quick reply.. We are using dmestup create
> mirror ..as we want to do that on physical San lun (block devices)
> ... Not the one ( lv create ) you mentioned below.. Is there any
> advantage going with logical volume approach lvcreate -type

One of LVM features is monitoring of mirror/raid LVs and 
removing/replacing any missing legs.

Using dmsetup directly, you have to do this manually.

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> /Suresh
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 7:46 PM, Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 01/26/2015 02:51 PM, Suresh Babu Kandukuru wrote: Use case is
>>> : Two luns are mapped from storage array to linux host which are
>>> in same SAN fabric . we want to create a mirror on the linux host
>>> with these two luns and let  host use that mirror lun .  basic
>>> tests suggest that dm_mirror working fine . when we have any
>>> intermittent path issues with between host and san array , host
>>> i/o just freeze , never returns back even after the path is
>>> online.
>>
>> Hard to tell what's happening without any kernel log.
>>
>>>
>>> Is dm_mirror viable solution here  ?. Can you point me any link
>>> which gives the limitations of dm_mirror ? . another alternate
>>> solutions you propose here ?. Thanks in advance .
>>
>> We've switched the default away from "mirror" to "raid1" in order
>> to take advantage of th MD runtime. Have you tested  "lvcreate
>> --type raid1 ..." yet? Please do.
>>
>> Regards, Heinz
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks /Suresh
>>>
>>>
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