[linux-lvm] LVM with multi-path disks?

John DeFranco defranco at cup.hp.com
Mon Aug 6 17:01:36 UTC 2001


Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:25:58PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> > in *redhat* kernels there is a patch that adds multipath support
> > to the md driver, you configure it as a raid-1 array, but it is
> > actually a multipath configuration.
> 
> If I remember correctly, you configure as "multipath" not "raid1".
> 
Do you know where the above is defined? I cannot find
anything in the raid documentation that talks about 
multipath?

> > it is the only way i know of doing what you want.
> Another alternative is the linux-driver for the SUN T3. I haven't tried
> it myself, but supposedly one can use the same driver for other
> dual-path RAIDs as well.
And I'm using something similiar to this driver, which
is what is giving me problems.

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   -jdf



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