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From: "Domenico Viggiani" <dviggiani@tiscali.it>
Subject: RE: LVM2, Multipath & iSCSI Volumes
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:23:00 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com 
> [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dushyanth
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:41 AM
> ...
> There are three LUNs exposed via both ports and I can see 
> disks from sdb to sdg.
> After start iscsi initiator i created a primary partition 
> (type set to LVM) using parted on sdb, sdc and sde.
> ...
I strongly suggest to avoid partitioning and using directly LVM2 on top of
whole disk.
This even if you could use 'kpartx' to syncronize partitions with multipath.

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DV