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From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Device-mapper-multipath RDAC
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:33:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190658812.1933.141.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709241706.26322.npf-mlists@eurotux.com>

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:06 +0100, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Just a question:
> 
> With recent support for rdac hardware handler in kernel 2.6.23-rc7, what 
> configuration should be in storage DS4700? AVT (Automatic Volume transfer) 
> turned on or off?

Hardware handler is needed only for RDAC mode, AVT would work without
the hardware handler.

The decision to use RDAC or AVT depends on your configuration.

> 
> When it's turned on, luns keep on jumping from controller to controller..

dm-multipath will use the other path (in AVT mode, IOW, jump) only if
I/O in the current path fails.
> 
> Thanks
> Nuno Fernandes
> 
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    Chandra Seetharaman               | Be careful what you choose....
              - sekharan@us.ibm.com   |      .......you may get it.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 16:06 Device-mapper-multipath RDAC Nuno Fernandes
2007-09-24 17:01 ` James Fillman
2007-09-24 17:21   ` Nuno Fernandes
2007-09-24 18:33 ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2007-09-25  7:50   ` Nuno Fernandes
2007-09-25  5:54 ` Hannes Reinecke
2007-09-25  7:52   ` Nuno Fernandes
2007-10-02 17:13     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-13 22:09       ` Multipath-tools not seeing replaced RAID controller S. J. van Harmelen
2008-02-14  1:30         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2008-02-14  8:04           ` S. J. van Harmelen
2007-09-25  8:05   ` Device-mapper-multipath RDAC Nuno Fernandes
2007-09-25  9:57   ` Device-mapper-multipath RDAC [SOLVED] Nuno Fernandes

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