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

[Gonyou, Austin]

Perhaps, if I can say, use the RH 7.2 kernel? It is 2.4.6 I believe. 

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ragnar Kjørstad [mailto:lvm at ragnark.vestdata.no]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:26 PM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM with multi-path disks?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:01:36AM -0700, John DeFranco wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> You need to use the RH kernel to get the "multipath" option.
> Unfortenately the md patch (from their source RPM) does not apply
> cleanly to a standard kernel, and it didn't look trivial to fix :(
> 
> 
> 
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> Ragnar Kjorstad
> Big Storage
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